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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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    ter of fluor albus, the two difeafes are often miflaken for one another* This abfence of pain, however, takes place only where the vagina is the feat of the difeafe. When the urethra becomes affected the fymptoms are nearly the fame as in the other fex. A diftrefsful degree of irritation occurs at the extremity of the urethra, accompanied with heat of urine, and a very frequent delire to pafs water. In fome cafes the inflammation fpreads to the bladder, and even to the kidneys, uterus, and ovaria ; or at leaft thefe parts come to be fo much affected with pain as to give caivfe to fufpect that they are in a Hate of inflammation. Pain, even in a fevere de- gree, will no doubt occur from nervous fympathy, and this I believe to be fre- quently the cafe here ; but I have met with different inflances of a considerable de- gree of inflammation being excited by Gonorrhoea in all the parts which I have mentioned: that is, they have become fwelled, hard, and excemvely painful, in- fomuch that the flighteft touch would create