Volume 1

A treatise of the venereal disease in six books; containing an account of the original, propagation, and contagion of this distemper in general. As also of the nature, cause, and cure of all venereal disorders in particular ... Together with an abridgment of the several discourses, which have been written upon this subject from the first appearance of the venereal disease in Europe to this time, with critical remarks upon them / Written originally in Latin. And now translated into English by William Barrowby.

  • Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766
Date:
1737
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Credit: A treatise of the venereal disease in six books; containing an account of the original, propagation, and contagion of this distemper in general. As also of the nature, cause, and cure of all venereal disorders in particular ... Together with an abridgment of the several discourses, which have been written upon this subject from the first appearance of the venereal disease in Europe to this time, with critical remarks upon them / Written originally in Latin. And now translated into English by William Barrowby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cnterocelct ( 366 ) ^aufe from the known ftate of the Patient, manifeft figns of flrumous or fcorbutical diforders are collect¬ ed; 3. But they are moft certainly diflinguifhed from all others, by the relation of the Patients, who confefs that they have been guilty of unclean or fufpeCted venery; or that they are afflicted with a Gonorrhoea or chancrous ulcers. Venereal Buboes bear a very fmall refemblance to the bubonocele^ or inguinal hernia • yet we have known them fometimes confounded with itj not with that kind of bubonocele which is occafioned by the falling down of the omentum^ and is called epiplocele^ in which the tumour is fofter, but with that which is occa- lioned by the inteftine, and is called enterocele^ in which there is greater refinance, in refpeCt to which it has nearer alliance with the Bubo: but not with the enteroceky in which the inteftine flips through the ob¬ lique rings of the epigaftric mufcles, becaufe the place in which the inteftine falls down, and where the tu¬ mour is raifed, is at a diftance from the inguinal glands, and of confequence from the Venereal Bubo 5 but with that enterocele in which the inteftine falls through the pafTage that the crural veftels take to the groin, which with refpeCl to their fituation,' have lit- de or no difference with that of the inguinal glands or Buboes. enterocele of any kind, by the following figns. 1. In the enterocele the tumour is fmooth upon the fupcrficies, and pretty near of a fpherical figure* the fuperficies is pretty broad, but the bafis flender, equal to the fize of the foramen, from whence the inteftine is fallen, and adheres to the groin as it were by a ftalk: the Bubo, on the other hand, has an unequal fuperficies, and is generally of an oblong figure, and has a wide expanded bafis. 2. In the enterocele the tumour eafily yields upon preffure, but upon taking off the finger it inftantly recovers itfelf: on the contrary, the Bubo refifts preP fure, as the Bubo of the phlegmon and feirrhous kind j or if it yields to preffure, it retains the print of