An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / by Charles Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, Charles, 1750-1815.
Date:
1783
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Credit: An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / by Charles Armstrong. 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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    PREFACE. ^MONG the numerous treatifes, and ejfays^ that have been puMiJhed on the -venereal dif. £afe, we have net one profejfedly written on the appearances and cure of this difeafe in Females, though they are equally obnoxious with the other moiety of the creation, to the effects of venereal infection, and too often fuffer undefervedly, from faithiefs hufbands, and ungenerous feducers. In a cafe of this kind, fhame commonly ties up the unhappy fufferer's tongue, until the diforder is pafi conceahnent. Sometimes, real ignorance of the pernicious nature of the complaint, prevents a virtuous woman from making an early appli- cation for medical ajjijlance, while the bafe au- thor of her misfortune, unwilling to take fhame: to himfelf, and acknowledge his guilt, (which is furely of the greateji magnitude) fuffers the dif- eafe to proceed unreflrained, to the inevitable defiru£lion of the conftitution, and, perhaps, the fame of the miferable victim. It may poffibly be urged, that a general trea- tife on the lues venerea, contains every thing re- quifite to be known, concerning the fymptoms, and method of cure, in both fexes, and that this little work is unneceffarily obtruded on the public. To this charge, I anfwer, that the beft authors on the venereal difeafe, have not defcribed its ap- pearances in females with fu^cient precifton; generally contenting themfelves with barely men^ | tioning