Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, and some other effects of the venereal virus / [Samuel Foart Simmons].

  • Simmons, Samuel Foart, 1750-1813
Date:
1794
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Credit: Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, and some other effects of the venereal virus / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE C U R E O F GONORRHOEA, ■ IVIany ingenious arguments have of late been ad¬ vanced to prove, that gonorrhoea and the lues vene¬ rea are different affedions, originating from two dif* tind fpecies of virujs. It would be happy for man¬ kind if this opinion were well founded; but, unfor¬ tunately, every day’s experience thews it to be er¬ roneous : it has been proved that the matter of a chancre introduced into the urethra will generate a gonorrhoea, and that the difcharge of a gonorrhoea will produce a chancre, bubo, and lues. I have now under my care, a patient who owes his prefent complaints of venereal blotches^ noctur¬ nal pains, and other fymptoms of a confirmed lues, to the imprudent cure of a gonorrhoea by an aftrin- gent injedion. In this patient the blotches made their appearance in about fix weeks after the fup- preflion of the difcharge. He had no chancre, nor had he ever expofed himfelf to the chance of a frefh infedion.