Volume 2

A complete practical treatise on venereal diseases, and their immediate and remote consequences : including observations on certain affections of the uterus, attended with discharges / By William Acton.

  • Acton, William, 1813-1875.
Date:
MDCCCXLI [1841]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A complete practical treatise on venereal diseases, and their immediate and remote consequences : including observations on certain affections of the uterus, attended with discharges / By William Acton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PL A FJG. 1—BALANITIS. The character of balanitis may, with advantage, be studied in this plate. It was impossible to say if sexual intercourse or a want of cleanliness was the cause. The general erysipelatous redness of the glans is well seen, and the excoriated appearance so often to be met with in this affection. FIG. 2.—VEGETATIONS. Ihe subject of this complaint was a young man twenty-four years of age. States he never has had either gonorrhoea or chancres. The characters of the complaint are well seen ; the clusters of the granules are very florid, each granule presenting a conica] appearance, though collected into masses. % FIG. 3.—ECZEMA. The appearances as seen in this plate are very characteristic of the affection ; namely, the exuda¬ tion of a serous fluid forming little scales, and the crevices are distinctly seen running between these little lamellae, resulting from the drying of the exuded fluid. The history of the case was obscure ; the patient advanced in life. FIG. 4 -HERPES PRyEPUTIALIS. Herpes in its various stages is delineated in this plate; commencing as a vesicular disease, its vesicles may ulcerate, and assume all the physical chaiacters of chancre. The five or six vesicles will be seen on distinct patches of inflamed skin, differ¬ ing in this respect from all other vesicular eruptions.