Volume 2

A practical treatise on diseases of the genitals of the male, with a preliminary essay on the history, nature, and general treatment of lues venerea / [John Maddox Titley].

  • Titley, John Maddox.
Date:
1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on diseases of the genitals of the male, with a preliminary essay on the history, nature, and general treatment of lues venerea / [John Maddox Titley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRELIMINARY ESSAY ON THE HISTORY, NATURE, AND GENERAL TREATMENT, OF LUES VENEREA. Recent observation has afforded so large an in- crease of knowledge concerning venereal diseases, that conclusions long taken for certain must now be abandoned, and the whole view either greatly modified or entirely changed. For my own part, availing myself of history, of the apparent course of nature, and of recent discoveries, ] am much disposed to believe that Lues Venerea is neither a new, nor, according to any definition hitherto pro- posed, a specific disease. I must here premise, that, in this essay, when speaking of Venereal Disease in the usual accepta- tion of those words, namely, disease ensuing upon sexual intercourse, and exhibiting primary affec- tions of the genitals, with consecutive symptoms, eruptive and other, of the surfaces and interior parts of the body, I employ the term “ Lues Venerea.” When alluding particularly to the evi- dence of writers who lived in, or near, the age B