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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    groin, sometimes stimulates the lymphatic > • glands to the production of a bubo. Chancre and bubo are merely the first consequences of the application and trans¬ mission of foreign poison—not the prime sources of the infection that terminates in general lues. They are the beginnings of that ruinous ferment, which it raises over the whole habit. Not unfrequently it happens, that ab- * <• - • sorption takes place unattended by either chancre or bubo, and secondary symp¬ toms, on the skin or in the throat, afford the first testimony of the habit being con¬ taminated—a confirmed lues is discovered without any alarm having been sounded by primary affection. More commonly still, there is venereal bubo without chan¬ cre. In such instances the contamination could only proceed from the original mat¬ ter, that had been applied during the K