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A treatise on gonorrhoea virulenta, and lues venerea / by Benjamin Bell, member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Ireland and Edinburgh, one of the surgeons to the Royal Infirmary, and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.
Date:
1793
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Credit: A treatise on gonorrhoea virulenta, and lues venerea / by Benjamin Bell, member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Ireland and Edinburgh, one of the surgeons to the Royal Infirmary, and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 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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    SECTION XIV. Of Gonorrhoea Simplex, T Have endeavoured in different parts of A this work to mew that the difcharge in Gonorrhoea Virulenta is the effect of inflammation excited in the urethra and contiguous parts by the matter of infec- tion being applied to them. In the end of the preceding fection a cafe is men- tioned, in which fymptoms occurred ex- actly limilar to thofe produced by Gonor- rhoea Virulenta from the application of an irritating powder to the urethra; and there is reafon to fuppofe that they may at any time be induced by whatever excites in- flammation in any part of that membrane. A puriform difcharge from the urethra induced in this manner, and without any con-