Observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea.

  • Simmons, Samuel Foart, 1750-1813.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    excoriation near the orifice of the urethra. It is certain, that wherever there is con- fiderable inflammation, there will be dan- ger of ulceration. Befides, from a neg- lected or badly treated gonorrhoea, we often fee fiftulas in perineo, and other ulcers of the urethra penetrating through its fubftance, and affording a paflage to the urine. And there can be no doubt that flight ulcerations of this canal of- ten occur, and are afterwards perfectly obliterated, in a fimilar manner to what happens in the papillae of the tongue, the tonfils, &c. Such an obliteration will the more readily take place in a part like the urethra, defended with mucus, and not expofed to the air, which is known to have nc little effeCt in hardening a ci- catrix. Perhaps, all things confidered, the moil rational idea we can form of the caufes