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Remarks on some of the opinions of the late Mr. John Hunter respecting the venereal disease; in a letter to Jeseph Adams / [Henry Clutterbuck].

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856
Date:
1799
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Credit: Remarks on some of the opinions of the late Mr. John Hunter respecting the venereal disease; in a letter to Jeseph Adams / [Henry Clutterbuck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with regard to chancres. “ It often happens/' Mr. Hunter observes, “ that after chancres are healed, and all the virus gone, that the cicatrices ulcerate again, and break out in the form of chancres. They often have so much the appearance of chancres, that many are treated as venereal that are not such ; they _' f . , •* differ in not spreading so fast, nor so far; they are not so painful, nor so much inflamed, and have not the hard basis, nor do they produce venereal buboes. Yet a malignant kind, when they attack a bad constitution, may be taken for a mild kind of chancre, or a chancre in a good constitution. I have seen several that • T _ r have puzzled me extremely.”—The only rea¬ son, then, for supposing these not to be ve- nereal is, that they sometimes get well without mercury. But, if this proof is not absolute, and the resemblance to chancre is so striking as to have deceived even Mr. Hunter’s pene¬ trating eye, it appears to me the lesser diffi¬ culty to admit the sameness of their nature. The efflorescence in the throat, which is fre¬ quently observed to succeed venereal ulce- ration, together with the occasional and tran¬ sitory pains which are often felt by those who have recently recovered from the constitu^ tional