A practical treatise on diseases of the genito-urinary organs [with a preliminary essay on the history, nature and general treatment of the lues venerea] With a comprehensive account of the symptoms, pathology and treatment of strictures of the urethra, fistulae, etc. etc. and the various forms of venereal affections : also observations on the use and abuse of mercury illustrated by numerous cases / [John Maddox Titley].

  • Titley, John Maddox.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A practical treatise on diseases of the genito-urinary organs [with a preliminary essay on the history, nature and general treatment of the lues venerea] With a comprehensive account of the symptoms, pathology and treatment of strictures of the urethra, fistulae, etc. etc. and the various forms of venereal affections : also observations on the use and abuse of mercury illustrated by numerous cases / [John Maddox Titley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    kept in the form of more compact memoranda, and shows clearly, when explained by, and com¬ pared with, the former passage, that the disease or diseases intended occurred all the year round, since it is plain to any one who will search the whole of that part of the section, that the year is divided into ^vyog and flzgog, into a cold and a warm season ; and that what is in these portions described, was observable among the common dis¬ eases of both. I have not been able to see the observations of Hier. Cardanus, an author in Boer- haave’s collection, who commented upon the Epi¬ demics, but it would be worth while to know the manner in which he, who lived in the age of the panic, lias considered these extracts. Perhaps I should add to the above that the dvOgut; of the Greeks has not the limited sense usually given to it, but means any crusty, eating, and running ulcer, and indeed is variously defined. Nor is it irrelevant to state, that both Torella and De Vigo give countenance to an opinion that contagion without coition would communicate the new dis¬ ease, whence, if such authority be alleged for tes¬ timony to the modern Lues or Syphilis, I think Hippocrates has a reasonable claim to be ignorant that coition was ever a cause of Lues, considering his mra and school of medicine. However, if this testimony of Hippocrates were wanting, we have most abundant records that ve¬ nereal diseases were known in Europe before the period assigned to the new disease. Celsus enu¬ merates, with great precision, various ulcers incident