Volume 2

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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    ffciok of a venereal hernia, 318; prognofHck of an ab- fcefs in perinaso, 325 3 prognofHck of a venereal ftrangury, 345 3 prognofHck of a bubo, 3683 prog- noffick of a fiftulous bubo, 3824 prognofHck of a fchirrous bubo, 3883 prognofHck of the can¬ cerous bubo, 3934 prognoftick of venereal ul¬ cers, 412 3 prognofHck of tumours of the prepuce and glans, and of the phimofis, paraphimofis, and cryffallines, 427 ] prognofHck of venereal phy- mata and fchirrous chords, 4443 prognofHck of a venereal gangrene, 452; prognoflick of venereal excrefcences of the pudenda, 4(363 prognofHck of venereal criflse, mora, marifcte, and rhagades, 478. Prognojiicks, of a confirmed Pox, II. 79 ; every pox violent and difficult in regard, firff, to the caufe, ib. 3 fecondly, the fymptoms, 80 3 thirdly, the injury done to the folid parts, ibid. 3 fourthly, the reme¬ dies, ibid, and fifthly, to a relapfe, ibid.; different degrees of violence in this difeafe, and firff in pro¬ portion to the age dr inveteracy of it, ibid. 3 fe¬ condly, the age of the patient, 81 , thirdly, the fex, ibid. ; fourthly, the natural habit of the body, ibid, fifthly, the conftitution of the parrs, ibid, fixth- ly, the number and vehemency of • the fymptoms, 823 feventbly, the conffitutional difeafe of the pati¬ ent, ibid:\ eighthly, the nature of the parts affedted, ibid. and ninthly, to the degree of injury the folid parts have received, ibid. 3 fuch poxes are mold vio¬ lent, as affect the brain, 83.; the dungs ibid. 3 the li¬ ver, 84; the uterus, ibid. 3 the proffates and feml- nary vehicles, ibid. ; the medulla of the bones, 853 any other parts of the body, if carcinomatous, ibid. 3 or if joined with the rickets, ffrumae, or fcurvy, ibid.; poxes of three kinds, whereof the firff ea'fily admits of a cure, 86; the fecond with more diffi¬ culty, as when there are venereal pains, 87 ; or a pocky Gout becomes conffitutional, 883 when the skin is affedted, the patient tormented with a perpetual head-ach, or the bones difeafed, ib. 3 when the tefficles are indurated, a virulent gonor¬ rhoea intervenes, or the ftrangury fucceeds a gonor- • - . rhcea.