The student's manual of venereal diseases : being the university lectures delivered at Charity Hospital, B. I., during the winter session of 1879-80.

  • Sturgis, F. R. (Frederic Russell), 1844-1919.
Date:
1880
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Credit: The student's manual of venereal diseases : being the university lectures delivered at Charity Hospital, B. I., during the winter session of 1879-80. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VENEREAL DISEASES. LECTURE I. SIMPLE VENEREAL ULCER AND ITS COMPLICATIONS. —THE CHANCROID. Gentlemen :—Before calling your special atten- tion to the cases which I have brought from the wards for the purposes of illustration, it may not be inapt to define what is meant by venereal diseases, and to set before you the principal groups into which they are divided. Speaking broadly, venereal diseases are those due to, and originating in, sexual contact, and, although many forms of these diseases are transmitted without any sexual contact, as I shall show you further on, the name may, for convenience' sake, stand. They are at present divided into three principal groups or divi- sions : Gonorrhcea^ Chancroid, and Syphilis. Each is distinct and separate one from the other, having nothing in common with each other, although they may all be present upon the same person at the same