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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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    this, that the cure of the difeafe is for the moft part both difficult and uncertain where the patient lives in a riotous and ntemperate manner. SECTION III. General Gbfervatlons on the Cure of Gonor- rhoea Virulenta. /^i Onorrhcea, as I have obferved above, has, till of late, been very generally confidered as depending upon an affection of the conftitution; or at leaft the dif- charge has been fuppofed to be of fuch a nature as at all times to affect the confti- tution, and therefore that a cure could not be obtained but by the ufe of remedies which operate upon the fyftem at large. For a confiderable time mercury was chiefly relied upon. It was employed on the fuppofition of Gonorrhoea being a