Condyloma, a primary form of venereal disease identical with sibbens / [David Skae].

  • Skae, David, 1814-1873.
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[1844]
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Credit: Condyloma, a primary form of venereal disease identical with sibbens / [David Skae]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~&<rz CONDYLOMA, A PRIMARY FORM OF VENEREAL DISEASE IDENTICAL WITH SIBBENS. By DAVID SKAE, M.D., F.R.C.S., Lecturer on Anatomy, Surgeon to the Lock Hospital, Eye Dispensary, &c. 7/iTU^ The flat and whitish elevations of the skin occurring on the verge of the anus, on the perinseum, labia, or scrotum, and occasion¬ ally on the thighs, or even in the axillae, and known under the names of condylomata, tubercides muqueuses, &c., are in this country generally ascribed to one of two causes. By some of our most distinguished writers they are ascribed to inattention to cleanliness in persons labouring under chronic discharges from the genital organs. “ These soft excrescences,” says Dr Adams, “ arise sometimes in consequence of a discharge from the rectum stimulating the neighbouring parts to ulceration. If such ulcers are prevented from healing by the discharge continuing, or by the friction of the parts, they must either ulcerate deeper and wider, or the cuticle will send out processes to defend them. These, on account of the pressure they receive, grow in various shapes, from which they have acquired their names. “ They will arise from a venereal origin in two ways. If a secondary ulcer is seated in these parts, that ulcer, having no power of healing itself, will take the character above described from the nature of the parts. Sometimes, also, the matter of gonorrhoea, by falling from the vagina along the perinseum, will produce ulceration, and the same consequences follow.”* * Adams on Morbid Poisons, London, 1807, p- 173. A