Volume 2

A new treatise on the venereal disease, gleets, seminal weaknesses, the dreadful effects of a certain detestable vice, and the causes of impotency, barrenness, etc / [J.H. Smyth].

  • Smyth, J. H. (J. Hamilton)
Date:
1781
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Credit: A new treatise on the venereal disease, gleets, seminal weaknesses, the dreadful effects of a certain detestable vice, and the causes of impotency, barrenness, etc / [J.H. Smyth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *3 1 There is another kind of venereal complaint that.is the product of a recent infection •, this is a dffcharge of a purulent thickifh matter, not from the urethra, but from the corona glandis, which is commonly painful and inflamed. This complaint was formerly taken notice of by Dr. Sydenham, and fince his time by Dr. Turner, and other practitioners. There are alfo a number of excrefcences that arife about the anus, fometimes appearing like the gills of a cock, and fometimes making other ap¬ pearances *, fometimes foft, at other times hard; the former gradually inflame and fuppurate, the latter grow cancerous, efpecially by tiling irritat¬ ing applications ; which is often the occafion of bringing on a fiftula in ano; but thefe excrefcences are more often caufed by a confirmed than a local infeCtion. Having now given a brief defcription of the principal fymptoms of the firft ftage of the vene¬ real infection, I will proceed to give an account of the fecond ftage, I mean that part of it which will be neceffary for the inllruCtion of the difeafed; fo that they may afcertain, with fome certainty, a fatisfaCfory knowledge of the fituation of their complaints. The venereal poifon, after having infeCted the parts by which it enters* may be conveyed into the blood two ways •, either by the circulation of the blood itfclf, which, in pairing by the confines of the parts affe&ed, takes up and carries off fome of the virulent particles along with it; or elfe by the circulation of the lymph, which, in its return from