On spurious venereal diseases / by Jordan Lloyd.

  • Lloyd, George Jordan, 1854-1913.
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[1886]
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Credit: On spurious venereal diseases / by Jordan Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    (Reprinted from the Birmingham Medical Review, Oct., 1886.) ON SPURIOUS VENEREAL DISEASES.* BY JORDAN LLOYD, M.B., F.R.C.S., SURGEON TO THE QUEEN’S HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM. The diseases referred to in the following notes affect both sexes. My present observations will be confined, however, to the consideration of male cases only. This for the reason that their investigation is usually more satisfactory and more complete ; conclusions concerning them, therefore, will probably be more reliable. The entire group of venereal diseases is almost always described as consisting of three distinct and separate disorders: Gonorrhoea, Syphilis or Chancre, and Chancroid; each of these being regarded as due to a different poison. Each is considered to be specific just in the same way as small pox or measles. A large number of practitioners in this country believe—at least their practice would lead one to think so— that gonorrhoea comes only from gonorrhoea, soft sores only from soft sores, and syphilis only from syphilis; just as every case of small pox is the result of infection from a pre-existing variola. Of the three venereal diseases syphilis is the only one which in every case originates, directly or indirectly, from a similar pre-existing primary or secondary lesion. It is Paper read before the Birmingham and Midland Branch of the British Medical Association, March, 1886.