A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhoea, vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph.

  • Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
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[1840]
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Credit: A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhoea, vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tied around the head of the penis, preventing the return of the blood, so that it swells prodigiously,'— looks blackish,—and sometimes even mortifies and comes away. This, however, can always be pre- vented by proper management, which will be shown, as I have already said, in the chapter on the treat- ment and cure of Gonorrhoea. Swelling of the glands in the groin.—This also is the result of inflammation, spreading to glandular bodies situated in the groin. In every part of the body there are certain little vessels called absorb- ents, and these, in their course, run through absorb- ent glands, of which there are several in each groin. Now it happens, that inflammation in the urinary passage is communicated through the me- dium of these vessels to the glands in the groin, which are therefore painful and enlarged. It is however worthy of remark, that, in Gonorrhoea, these glandular swellings seldom go on to form a bubo, (which is an abscess in the groin) as they are apt to do in Venereal disease, so that they are comparative- ly innocent; after a little time they generally sub- side and disappear. We now come to the third of these occasional symptoms, which is.— Frequent and very painful erections of the pe- nis. This is a distressing and tedious symptom, the nature of which I will endeavor to explain. In fact, it is nothing more than inflamation extend-