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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:
1793
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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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    a good deal of inflammation, had been fo foolifh as to live freely, and to ride much on horfeback. This, with the unguarded ufe of a very ftimulating injection, put a fudden flop to the difcharge; and at the fame time it excited a very considerable degree of pain and inflammation along all the pofterior part of the urethra, to- wards the proftate gland and neck of the bladder, attended with a painful and frequent dehre to make water. On the idea of thefe being fymptoms of pox, he was immediately put under a courfe of mercury ; and, when I firfl faw him, he had been ufing it for the fpace of fix weeks. The furgeon in attendance acknowledged that no advantage had been derived from it; and the patient himfelf faid that his diflrefs was daily increafing. They were both, therefore, eafily per- fuaded to lay the mercury afide ; and, by the repeated application of leeches to the perineum, of fomentations, and opiates, to allay the pain, the inflammation fo d began