Practical observations on the nature and treatment of some exasperated symptoms attending the venereal disease. / By Edward Geoghegan, member of the Royal College of Surgeons; of the Royal Society, Edinburgh; and surgeon to the Dublin General Dispensary.

  • Geoghegan, E. (Edward)
Date:
1801
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Credit: Practical observations on the nature and treatment of some exasperated symptoms attending the venereal disease. / By Edward Geoghegan, member of the Royal College of Surgeons; of the Royal Society, Edinburgh; and surgeon to the Dublin General Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <)f those eases in which mercury has proved in- jurious? and would it not account more satisfac- torily for the cases given by Mr. Hunter, than by attributing them to new poisons springing up. The frequency of ulcerations of the genitals at all times, and their noxious effects being com- municated by connection, are proved by many authorities. By the statutes made by Jane I. queen of both the Sicilies, which authorized bro- thels at Avignon, and which enjoins, that the wenches should be examined bv the abbess and surgeon on every saturdav, and if any of them had caught any illness, that they should be separated from the rest, lest the youths should catch their distempers. These statutes bear date August 18th, 1357; near 130 years previous to the appearance of the venereal disease. I am