Memoir on the treatment of venereal diseases without mercury : employed at the military hospital of the Val-de-Grace / translated from the French of H.M.J. Desruelles ; to which is added Observations on the treatment of the venereal disease without mercury by G.J. Guthrie and various documents showing the results of this mode of treatment in Great Britain, France, Germany, and America.

  • Desruelles, H. M. J. (Henri Marie Joseph), 1791-1858.
Date:
1830
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    tals with those proceeding from other causes than syphilis, it is impossible to distinguish the former from the latter, by any remarkable appearance, especially when they have existed some time. I have seen ulcerations produced by burning tinder, cantharides, caustics, and even by a piece of lint left for some time between the glans and the pre- puce, present at the expiration of eight or ten days every appearance of venereal ulcers. The similarity was so close, that several Parisian physicians to whom I showed them, took them for venereal ulcers, and we never should have been undeceived, had not the patients themselves confessed the deception they had practised on us. It is then impossible to admit the existence of a variety of ulcers, each proceeding from a pecu- liar kind of irritation; it appears to us evident, that all the different varieties proceed from the circumstances and causes enumerated above. All that we have heretofore said, applies of course only to primitive ulcers, without allusion to such as succeed cases of badly treated inguinal adenitis,* or to serpiginous ulcers, so frequently * The word bubo has been heretofore employed to de- signate a tumour in the groin after venereal infection, de