Practical observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea virulenta in men / by Thomas Whately, member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Practical observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea virulenta in men / by Thomas Whately, member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^' with calomel/' &c.* And Mr. Hunter expres- ses himself as follows on thrs subject. '' If any doubt still remains with respect to the two diseases being- of the same nature^ it will be removed by considering that the matter pro- duced in both is of the same kind^ and has the *' same properties; the proofs of which are, that the matter of a gonorrhcea will produce either '' a gonorrhoea, a chancre, or the lues venerea; '' and the matter of a chancre, will also pro- duce either a gonorrhoea, a chancre, or the '^ lues venerea. The following case is an in- '' stance of a gonorrhoea producing a lues venerea. A gentleman twice contracted a '' gonorrhoea^ of which he was cured both times without mercury. About two months after *' each he had symptoms of the lues venerea— '' those in consequehce of the first infection, were ulcers in the throat, which were removed b}'the .external application of mercury. The ^ symptoms in consequence of the second, were '' blotches in the skin, for which also he used '*^ the mercurial ointment, and was cured.f Dr. Monro, the celebrated professor of ana- tomy at Edinburgh, is also of opinion, that the * Review of the Venereal Disease, p. 72,. t Treatise on the Venereal Disease, p. 15. ■ 'Tl^t^