A probationary essay on blenorrhagia venerea : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by Benjamin Bell ... June 1823.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1802-1843.
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1823
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Credit: A probationary essay on blenorrhagia venerea : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by Benjamin Bell ... June 1823. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARKS UPON BLENNORRHAGIA VENEREA. The disease which, in most countries has, for a long series of years, been termed Gonorrhoea, is one of very ancient date, and was most prohahly known to the Jewish Lawgiver, who appears to allude to it in the 15th Chapter of Leviticus. t I s Whether the disease there described was really Gonorrhoea or not, I do not pretend to determine. There can be no doubt, however, as to the factj that the disease prevailed in Britain at a very early period, and that laws were enacted during