A treatise on the venereal rose. / By William Butter, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Member of the Medical Society, both Edinburgh.

  • Butter, William, 1726-1805.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal rose. / By William Butter, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Member of the Medical Society, both Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    ( ) after infe&ion. A heat of urine commonly precedes the running for a day or lefs; though fometimes the latter is the firft fymp- tom. The difcharge at the besrinnino; is thin, colourlefs, and in fmall quantity: but it foon increafes in quantity; and at the fame time acquires more confiftence and fome colour. It is generally of a thin creamy con- liftence and colour. It is often whitifh: fometimes it is greenifh; and fometimes of various colours. It is always fetid. It is generally moft copious when the patient is warm in bed. The colour of this running, whether frefli or dryed upon linen, continues the fame; and hath little more effect in ftiffening the cloth than if it had been water. In a few days after this diforder hath com- menced, it is attended with frequent painful erections, called Chordee, from the corded fenfation that the patient complains of for the time, as well as from the part affedled being: