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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    the ordinary characters of the disease, and increase during its administration. Mr. Hunter mentions, that he has often seen cases, where symptoms resembling venereal oc- curred during the cure, but were not so. When chancres were nearly healed, new ones break out near to the first, and put on all the appearance of a chancre, but he has always treated them as not venereal. He also remarks swellings of the glands in the groin, arising even when the constitution was loaded with mercury sufficient for the cure ot the sores; such swellings he considered as not venereal, but occasioned by the mercury being introduced by the inferior extremity. Every surgeon oi ob- servation, must see the force of those practical re- marks. Men of little discrimination generally decide in such cases, that a recent infection has been