Identities ascertained; or, an illustration of Mr. Ware's opinion respecting the sameness of infection in venereal gonorrhoea, and the ophthalmia of Egypt: with an examination of affinity between antient leprosy and lues.

Date:
1808
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Credit: Identities ascertained; or, an illustration of Mr. Ware's opinion respecting the sameness of infection in venereal gonorrhoea, and the ophthalmia of Egypt: with an examination of affinity between antient leprosy and lues. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tation, but connected with gonorrhoea, and is now known to have been the same as purulent ophthalmy. It was equally vio¬ lent in its symptoms, and destructive in its consequences. It was frequently sup¬ posed to proceed, not from the positive application of gonorrhoeal matter to the eye, but from a rare sympathy called me* tastasis, or translation of action from the urethra to the eye. This wild hypothesis probably proceeded from the rareness of the complaint, which few practitioners had any opportunity of seeing. It might naturally be concluded, that if it had happened from contact of matter from the urethra, the cause would be occurring so often, that the instances must be very numerous. It could not have been the disease of one in a thousand only that had gonorrhoea; but the odds would have been much against the chance of anv indi- vidual, under that complaint, escaping it.