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.

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    OF THE VENEREAL. GONORRHOEA. THIS form of the difeafe generally makes its appearance within eight or ten days after the infection has been received; fome- times indeed it appears in two or three days, and at other times not in lefs than a fortnight.. Previous to the difcharge, the patient feels an itching, with a fmall degree of pain, a little diftance above the glans penis, in the urethra : afterwards a thin whitifh vifcid matter be- gins to difcharge from the canal, which ftains the linen, and occafions a fmall degree of ti- tillation, particularly in the time of making water; this gradually increafing, arifes gra- dually to a fenfe of fcalding and pain, chiefly felt about the extremity of the urinary paiTao-e, where a flight degree of rednefs and inflam- mation likewife begins to appear. As the diforder advances, the pain, ardor urinas, and running increafe, while frefh fym- ptoms