Lectures on syphilis and on some forms of local disease : affecting principally the organs of generation / by Henry Lee.

Date:
1875
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    SITUATION OF BUBOES. than the other; both may be affected : but if a bubo arises in consequence of a chancre, then the groin may be generally determined by the seat of the chancre, for if the chancre is on one side of the penis, then the bubo will commonly be on that side: however, this is not universally the case; for I have known instances, although but few, where a chancre on one side of the prepuce or penis has been the cause of a bubo on the opposite side, which, if arising from that chancre, is a proof that the absorbents either anastomose or de- cussate each other. If the chancre be on the frsenum, or on the middle of the penis, between the two sides, then it is uncertain which side will be affected. “The situation of the glands of the groin is not always the same, and therefore the course of the absorbent vessels will vary accordingly. I have seen a venereal bubo, which arose from a chancre on the penis, a considerable way down the thigh; on the contrary, I have seen it often as high as the lower part of the belly, before Poupart’s ligament, and sometimes near the pubes, all of which three situations may lead to some variations in the method of cure; therefore it may be proper to attend to them. “ As the disease most commonly affects the organs of generation, the situation of buboes is generally in the groin; but as no part of the body, under certain circumstances, is exempt from this disease, we find that the nearest glands between the part of absorption and the heart, everywhere in the body share the same fate with those of the groin, especially if external. ” The true venereal bubo, Hunter observes, is com- monly confined to one gland—but this description