Observations upon the new opinions of John Hunter in his late treatise on the venereal disease.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1786-87
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Credit: Observations upon the new opinions of John Hunter in his late treatise on the venereal disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from negle£led gonorrhoeas, o]> from fuch as are abandoned to their own cure. This is one of thofe fymptoms whofe evil conlequences may be fo attached to us, and fo deeply rooted in us, that it cannot be fhaken oiT; that may not only attend us, but haften us to our end. This is fuch an evil as is too complex for the ignorant to cure, and too important for the vain to defpife, that ought to be guarded againft, and not waited for, that ought to be refifted by anticipation. For the Profeflbr, after all his parade about the harmlefs fim- plicity of gonorrhoea, confefles that, in fpite of evry attempt, the afFeiflion of the *' bladder often continues for a confiderable *^ time, producing other fympathies in the neighbouring parts.',' The cure, he fays, conhfts in opiate clyfters, warm bath, bleed-> ing, but v/ith caution if it arifes from fympa- thy—r-leeches to the perinaeum—opiate plafter to the region of the pubis-«—blifter to the pe- rineum,