On spurious venereal diseases / by Jordan Lloyd.

  • Lloyd, George Jordan, 1854-1913.
Date:
[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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    than six months previously. He was the subject of a tight congenital phimosis permitting exposure of the meatus only when uninflamed. Redness and swelling of the prepuce were the first symptoms noticed; scalding and chordee making their appearance nearly a fortnight afterwards. Circumcision with subsequent cleanliness was soon followed by perfect cure. I would mention here that in all acute inflammations—especially about the genitals—I get the best results by keeping the parts moist with a lotion composed of two ounces of the Liquor Plumbi Subacetatis, and one ounce of rectified spirit in twenty ounces of carbolic acid lotion (i in 40). I have seen a case where excessive dancing and its con- comitants appears to have induced urethritis. Case 10.—-In March last, a solicitor, 25 years old, consulted me concerning a urethral discharge of a week’s duration. There was no possibility of infection having been communicated in the usual way since at least six weeks before. He had danced four nights a week throughout the season. There was a strong history of gout in his family, and of rheumatism in himself. He had had five “ claps ” before, and regarded this as another one, although quite undeserved. I have seen all the known complications of true gonorrhoea occur during attacks of spurious gonorrhoea, with the single ex- ception of ophthalmia, and I have but little doubt that this too will come under my observation at some future time. On referring to authors I find that urethral discharges have been already attributed to tubercular deposit in the urethra of a strumous patient (Ricord); eating largely of asparagus (Harrison); toxic doses of arsenic (Saint Philippe); there is a form of urethral discharge occurring during secondary syphilis, in which the mucous membrane of the urethral canal appears to be affected similarly to the fauces; free indulgence in fermented liquors, terebinthenate medicines ; paraplegia ; use of bougies ; stricture; masturbation; prolonged excitement of the genitals; cancer of the womb; ascarides in the rectum, dentition, caniharides, etc. Many of the above are familiar to you all;