Observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea / [Samuel Foart Simmons].

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

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    Weare Pes fations Sometimes the prepuce inflames about the end of the penis, and cannot be drawn back, occafioning what is called a phymofis; at others, as in the paraphy- mofis, it remains in an inflamed fate be- low the glans, fo that it cannot be drawn forwards; and if the ftri€ture and inflammation are violent, may terminate in gangrene. Now and then, efpecially when there is a phymofis, we may per- ceive a hard chord. extending along the back of the penis. This is an inflamed lymphatic, and may be confidered as a prelude to a bubo, | In mild cafes, the feat of the difeafe, as we have obferved, is in the urethra, not far from its orifice, but it frequently happens that the virus infinuates itfelf much higher up fo as to affed Cowper’s glands, the proftate, and parts very near to the neck of the bladder. 2 Tn