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A treatise on gonorrhoea virulenta, and lues venerea / by Benjamin Bell, member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Ireland and Edinburgh, one of the surgeons to the Royal Infirmary, and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.
Date:
1797
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Credit: A treatise on gonorrhoea virulenta, and lues venerea / by Benjamin Bell, member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Ireland and Edinburgh, one of the surgeons to the Royal Infirmary, and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    ces of fores produced by the venereal vi- rus ; but they frequently occur where the fkin remains entire ; that is, abforption of the venereal poifon often takes place where no veftige of ulceration is perceived : This, indeed, is denied by many ; but I have met with it in various inftanees, and it will be admitted by every practitioner of experience. Now this being eftablifh- ed, in the application of the venereal virus to every other part of the body, if the matter of Gonorrhoea is of the fame na- ture, why does it not, in almoft every cafe of clap, enter the fyftem, and produce pox? So far as we know, the urethra is as plen- tifully fupplied with abforbents as other parts of the body ; the fame kind of mat- ter, when applied to them here, ought therefore to be productive of fimilar ef- fects : and hence Lues Venerea ought, per- haps in every inftance, to be the confe- quence of Gonorrhoea, were the matter by which the two difeafes are produced the £ 1 me. B 3 As