A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhea--vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph.

  • Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
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[1840]
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Credit: A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhea--vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whose habits, age, and religion, place them beyond uncharitable suspicion ;—and, that these complaints are cured by the treatment proper in the milder forms of Gonorrhoea.—A third disorder which resembles Gonorrhoea, is,— Stricture in the urinary passage.—Stricture, upon excitement, will sometimes produce discharge exceedingly resembling Gonorrhoea, but without the usual degree of pain and inflammation attending that complaint. What a Stricture is, I will take great pains to explain in a future chapter. Here it is only needful to say, it is a contraction, or a diseased condition, of some part or other of the uri- nary passage, generally the consequence of a badly treated Gonorrhoea, but which often continues for a time so free from pain or any inconvenience, that it is not suspected to exist, and is only brought to light by the occurrence of some sufficiently exciting cause. Now, the act of sexual intercourse is a sufficiently exciting cause, and hence the disorder now referred to is frequently observed to follow quickly after it. I have often been consulted by persons who have remarked that they are quite unfortunate, for they scarcely ever are exposed without contracting this disease; and, what to them is most remarkable, is, that others who have visited the same female have escaped. The fact is, that this is not a case of Gonor- rhoea at all, but of Stricture; and theirfriends have not these symptoms, because they have n,o Stricture, Of