A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie.

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793.
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    VENEREAL DISEASE- ••«►••>••••••< >»«®><S><S>< >••••<>•—<>• THE venereal poifon is capable of affect- ing the human body in two different ways Locally, that is, in thofe parts only to which it is firft applied—^and conftitutionally > that is, in confequence of the abforption of the venereal pus, which affects the folids through the medium of the circulating fluids. Between the firft and fecond, or the local and conftitutional, form of this difeafe, certain intermediate complaints take place In the progrefs of abforption there are inflammations and fuppurations, forming, what are called, buboes, in which the matter is of the fame nature with that of the original difeafe. When the matter has got into the conftitution and is circulating with the blood, it there irritates to action, and from that irritation are produced A many