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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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    by the primary symptom of chancre or bubo, find without any relation or dependence on each other. Amidst the multitude of medical experi¬ ments, it is rather surprising that a point of this magnitude should remain yet undecided ; a point, too, which is so easily reducible to certainty. But so it is; for I cannot deem the experiments mentioned by Mr. Hunter as decisive : they are too few to warrant so gene¬ ral and important a conclusion. The first on the subject was made at St. George's Hospi¬ tal, and the following are the principal points respecting it. A woman who had eontra£ted the venereal disease about twelve months before, came into the hospital with several venereal ulcers under the arms, and upon the breasts near the nipples. She had borne twins soon after the appearance of the secondary symptoms, (hav¬ ing advanced only eight months in her pregnancy) both of which died, and, as she reported, were bom with blotches upon them. Another child which she had habituated to suck her, although nearly three years of age, was also covered with blotches. Mr. Hunter naturally asked, how did the last child receive the in¬ fection ? did it take place from the secondary ulcer on the nipple ? Te determine whether the matter of the ulcer