Identities ascertained, or, An illustration of Mr. Ware's opinion respecting the sameness of infection in venereal gonorrhoea, and the ophthalmia of Egypt : with an examination of affinity between antient leprosy and lues.

Date:
1808
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Credit: Identities ascertained, or, An illustration of Mr. Ware's opinion respecting the sameness of infection in venereal gonorrhoea, and the ophthalmia of Egypt : with an examination of affinity between antient leprosy and lues. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    body, and even to surfaces as susceptible of being acted upon, as these of the pu- denda of either sex. The tunica conjunctiva of the eyes is equally susceptible—the lips are susceptible—the nipples of a woman are susceptible—the anus is susceptible. But these diseases are never communicated to these parts from any persons own body. A chancre in the glans penis is never com- municated to the praepuee, where there is a perpetual point of contact. It was sup- posed that contiguity of situation rendered parts unsusceptible. This was endeavouring to account, in a very superficial way, for what could not be comprehended: for it had never been presumed, that every part of the identical body was equally unsuscep- tible as parts in the neighbourhood. It was a limited assent to that principle, which is general over the body—an acknowledg- ment extorted from observation of matter being in constant application to the neigh-