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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    ine not fufficiently fatisfa&ory to enable me to de¬ cide with certainty on the fubjed. On the other hand, I have met with feveral inflances myfelf, and have feen others in the colledions of different auato- miffs, of urethras that afforded evident marks of ci¬ catrices from ulcers formerly exifling in that canal. And when we coniider that the difcharge in a go¬ norrhoea is fometimes tinged with blood, and that when this happens, a little blood-veffel may be fup~ pofed to be ruptured ; I think we can have no rea- fon to doubt that an ulceration may, and fometimes does happen in thefe cafes; efpecially as we often obferve an excoriation near the orifice of the urethra. It is certain, that wherever there is confiderable in¬ flammation, there will be danger of ulceration. Be- fides, from a negleded or badly treated gonorrhoea, we often fee fiflulas in perinaeo, and other ulcers of the urethra penetrating through its fubftance, and affording a paffage to the urine. And there can be no doubt that flight ulcerations of this canal often occur, and are afterwards perfectly obliterated, in a fimilar manner to what happens to the papillae of the tongue, the tonfils, &c. Such an obliteration will the more readily take place in a part like the urethra, defended with mucus, and not expofed to the air, which is known to have no little efiedl in hardening a cicatrix. Perhaps, all things confidered, the molt rational idea we can form of the caufes and phaenomena of this difeafe, will be, that particles of the venereal virus being blended with the femen, and with the mucus that oozes from the urethra during coition, B may