Academical lectures on the lues venerea / Translated from the Latin, with notes, by Jonathan Wathen.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.
Date:
1763
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Credit: Academical lectures on the lues venerea / Translated from the Latin, with notes, by Jonathan Wathen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . Others have thought that.this diftemper was known to Hippocrates and Galen, nay, even to Mofes, and by him defcribed in the facred writings, which opinion does not appear to. be true, Ido not affert this precipitately, but after the moft critical. enquiry, and the ftrongeft conviction of its truth. I fay, fuch a difeafe never did appear before the years 1493 and 1496; I mean fuch as bore a like form, was excited by fuch caufes, affected fuch parts, and produced fimilar effects: otherwife indeed very many difeafes bear fome refemblance to it, but from thence nothing can be deduced with re- {pect to this contagion ; for the true diftemper (except a few rare inftances) contaminates every one who has to do with an infected man or wo- man; but there is no difeafe which fo fudden- ly, and in this manner, affects the parts con-. cerned with fuch violence ; and is thus difperfed all over Europe. | . 1. But as this fubject deferves our farther, . confideration, we fhall obferve firft, that the - feabies. or itch, (a ftrange difeafe) was known. before the time above-mentioned, which being endued with certain volatile or fpirituous efiu- N°. 357. His authorities are eight in number, taken from manufcript and unpublifhed writings; the principal of thefe is what he produces from a manufcript treatife of John Ardern, an eminent Englifh furgeon in the 14th century, who fpeaks of a burning, and calls it an inward heat and excoriation of the urethra. : A like defcription is given by fome other ancient Englifh writers, who have called this complaint, the ficknels of brenning. A 3 Vid,