The history of the early and present state of the venereal disease examined: wherein is shewn that mercury never was necessary for its cure, as well as the injurious consequences that result from its employment; at the same time pointing out approved modes of treatment founded on its pathology / [George Hume Weatherhead].

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853
Date:
1841
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Credit: The history of the early and present state of the venereal disease examined: wherein is shewn that mercury never was necessary for its cure, as well as the injurious consequences that result from its employment; at the same time pointing out approved modes of treatment founded on its pathology / [George Hume Weatherhead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the fifteenth chapter of Leviticus, was intended to signify a gonorrhoea, and that the word “ flesh ” is merely a clerical way of translating “ penis.” This is rendered more manifest from the bed on which he lay being declared to be thereby defiled, as well as the seat on which he sat, and the saddle on which he rode, and any thing that was under him. Indeed, the context of the remainder of the chapter (see particularly verse 32) will bear no other construction.* We find very little that is precise on this subject in Hippocrates. Some might incline to believe that the description he gives of a discharge from the vagina, in his book De Morb. Mulier., much resembled that applicable to gonorrhoea: if the matter, he says, dropped on the clothes, it infected them, and not only eroded and ulcerated the pudenda, but likewise the upper parts of the thighs and neighbouring parts. Now, though gonorrhoeal matter will sometimes do this, par¬ ticularly if the parts be kept in a filthy state, matter proceeding from cancerous ulceration of some part of the womb is capable of producing similar effects. There is a passage in Herodotus by possibility * In the Spanish Bihle, the expression “ issue out of the flesh” is translated by the word “ gonorrhoea.” “ El hombre que padice gonorrhea, sera immundo.”