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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    ees ae, them of fufficient frmnefs to be intro- duced into the urethra, and continue there, without danger of breaking ; and at the fame time, fupple enough to lie eafy in the paflage, and conform to the motions of the body. They fhould like- wife be fmooth, and in their compofition perfectly free from any thing that can ir- ritate. An extraneous body, fuch as a bougie, however mild it may be, is of it- felf a fufficient ftimulus, when lodged in fo delicate a canal as the urethra, and when fuffered to remain there for any length of time, will certainly bring on an increafed fecretion of mucus. The pre- tended {uppuration that follows the ufe of the {pecific bougies that have been at dif- ferent times obtruded on the public, is nothing more than this fame effect in a greater degree; for it is well known, ‘that fuppuration can never take place till there 1s an actual ulcerations whereas, 2 the