An essay on the theory and cure of the venereal gonorrhoea : and the diseases which happen in consequence of that disorder / By John Andree.

  • Andree, John, approximately 1740-approximately 1820.
Date:
1777
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Credit: An essay on the theory and cure of the venereal gonorrhoea : and the diseases which happen in consequence of that disorder / By John Andree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( '4 ) which Is expectorated, the changes in its confiftency and colour, according to the de¬ gree of inflamation ? In this Difeafe no one now has recourfe to ulcers to account for the difcharge, although it fometimes refembles pus. An increafed and coloured difcharge from the membrana fchneideriana is often the confequence of an inflamation of that part; any irritating fubftance applied to it^ produces an immediate increafed fecretion and difcharge of its mucus: the fame effeCt may be produced in the fame manner on the globe of the eye and infide of the eyelid. It may be laid, that the two cafes mentioned <r s t, ■» above as proofs that a Gonorrhoea may caufe a Lues Venerea, feem to prove that ulcers do happen in the Urethra in fome Gonorrhoeas. On the contrary, they rather tend to fhew, that when ulcers in the Urethra do happen in z Gonorrhoea, a Lues Venerea and obftruCled Urethra will probably be the confequence. On the whole then, we have clearly argu¬ ments of fuflicient force to prove the great probability of this theory, which arguments are {Lengthened by repeated difie&ions of the parts in fubjeCts who have died with the dileafe on them. It