Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, : and some other effects of the venereal virus. / By Samuel Foart Simmons, M. D. F. R. S. Member of the College of Physicians, London; and of the Royal Medical Society at Paris.

  • Simmons, Samuel Foart, 1750-1813.
Date:
M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
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Credit: Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, : and some other effects of the venereal virus. / By Samuel Foart Simmons, M. D. F. R. S. Member of the College of Physicians, London; and of the Royal Medical Society at Paris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    me not fufficiently fatisfadory to enable me to de- cide with certainty oil the fubjed. On the other hand, I have met with feveral inftances myielf, and have feen others in the collections of different anato- mifts, of urethras that afforded evident marks of ci- catrices from ulcers formerly exifling in that canal. And when we confider that the difcharge in a go- norrhoea is fometimes tinged with blood, and that when this happens, a little blood-veffel may be fup- pofed to be ruptured ; I think we can have no rea- fon to doubt that an ulceration may, and fometimes does happen in thefe cafes ; efpecially as we ofteri obferve an excoriation near the orifice of the urethra. It is certain, that wherever there is confiderable in- flammation, there will be danger of ulceration. Be- fides, from a neglected or badly treated gonorrhoea, -we often fee fiftulas in perinaeo, and other' ulcers of the urethra penetrating through its fubftance, and affording a paffage to the urine. And there can be no doubt that flight ulcerations of this canal often occur, and are afterwards perfedly obliterated, in a limilar manner to what happens to the papilla; of the tongue, the tonlils, &c. Such an obliteration will the more readily take place in a • part like the urethra, defended with mucus, and not expofed to the air, which is known to have no little effed in hardening a cicatrix. Perhaps, all things confidered, the mofl rational idea we can form of the caufes and phenomena of this difeafe, will be, that particles of the venereal virus being blended with the femen, and with the mucus that oozes from the urethra during coition, B may