A complete treatise on the nature, symptoms, and cure of lues venerea ; historical, theoretical, practical, and original. / By Jessé Foot.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A complete treatise on the nature, symptoms, and cure of lues venerea ; historical, theoretical, practical, and original. / By Jessé Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    that nine months before, although from the history of the case, the father was then possessed of Lues Ve- nerea, yet there were not then on him sufficient marks of it, so as to induce the father of the child to sub- mit his case to the inspection of a Surgeon. The purity of the mother I know to have been unques- tionable. [A similar case, in every respect, was treated suc- cessfully after the same manner by me.] The strange blunders and fantastic fictions which some medical writers sometimes put in print only excite a smile. Their reveries, and their exagge- rated narratives, have a whimsical air of romance, in which truth is set boldly at defiance, but where de- ception leads to no serious consequences. Far diffe- rent is the feeling awakened in the mind by erro- neous accounts of the present state of Lues Vene- rea. On a subject so sacred to every sympathy of families, errors assume the character of calumny, and of calumny so much the more odious, as it seems in its tendency to bruise those already suffer- ing. Let them recollect, that justice is not done, unless they be suspected, disputed, tried, and proved, as well as claimed and professed. The interval of time, from the first contraction of a Chancre to the breaking out of primary symptoms of an infected constitution, will not pass without sexual connection, and that sexual connection, when pregnancy is a consequence, will not pass without that disease possessed by father or mother being,