Observations on the different methods of treating the veneral disease / By William Dease.

  • Dease, William, 1752?-1798
Date:
1779
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Credit: Observations on the different methods of treating the veneral disease / By William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] of inflammation, which gives to the virus a fuperior degree of aftivity. In thofe cafes, the difeafe is foon developed with every degree of virulence, 'and generally makes a rapid progrefs* It is. not fo, in general, with old veterans in amours, or in thofe that have a natural frigidity, and who have to do with thofe in whom the difeafe is partly fubdued, or on the decline • elpecially if the fymptoms on the parts of generation have difappear- ed, although the. virus has paffed into the general fyftem. ' We often find under thofe circumftances, particularly if the party is careful to walli clean thofe parts,, and fhake water immediately*.after the aft; there arc many inftances of men and wbrheii coha¬ biting without beingnnfefted ; and when rifeyTare, the developement of the virus is genftally flbw,’ *and unattended with the acitteTymptoms of this difeafe. I am con¬ vinced frofrt^repeated experience, that’there are‘fbme particular habits of body, and difpofition^'in the parts of generation, which, under the fame circumftances, are more, readily infefted than, others • 'When * Vide Note i.