A treatise on gonorrhoea and syphilis.

Date:
1821
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Credit: A treatise on gonorrhoea and syphilis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to conclude there is no difference: as he found indisputably, that the matter from gonorrhoea and chancre were capable of producing the pox. When a secreting surface has set up the in- flammatory action, the secretion is always increased, and is at last so much altered as to become exactly similar to that by which it was pro- duced : the matter that it first received stimulated, as it were, the parts to secrete and wash it off; but this does not succeed, as the irritation still con- tinues, and the consequent inflam- mation occasions a continuance of it, and a succession of the formation of the same pus. The virus is not obliged to the pus, but to the specific inflammation for the continuance of