Practical observations on venereal complaints / By F. Swediaur, M.D.

  • Swediaur, F. (Franz), 1748-1824.
Date:
1786
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Credit: Practical observations on venereal complaints / By F. Swediaur, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    totally fufpended, or at Ieaft confiderably dimi- niflied, fo that no difcharge, or only a very fmall one, takes place, tho’ the other fymptoms rage with the utmoft violence. In this cafe, the difeafe has obtained the very improper name of gonorrhcea, ficca, as if we were to fay,jluxusfeminisfineJluxu. Another fymptom is a violent pain during erec¬ tion, from the tenfion of the fraenum, which has obtained the peculiar name of Chordel; but as thefe diftin&ions denote only the violence of fome particular fymptom, there is no occafion for re¬ taining them. This difiemper, we may obferve, 1. Is a local- inflammation; and therefore, like all others of the fame kind, does but feldom alfeft the whole fyflem. 2. The difcharge, though the matter has a purulent appearance, is not a real pus, much \efe femen, as fome patients fancy. The matter difcharged is nothing elfe but merely the mucus of the urethra or vagina fecreted in a larger quan¬ tity than ufual, and changed in its colour and con¬ fidence by the ftimulus applied to the parts; like the mucous difcharge from the nofe or lungs in a coryza, or cough from cold, where the mucus affumes nearly the fame purulent appearance. It is an erroneous notion, that this difcharge arifes always from an ulcer in the urethra. In ninety- nine out of an hundred gonorrhoeas, perhaps, there is no fuch thing as an ulcer; but the difeafe is merely a fuperficial inflammation of the internal membrane of the urethra, like that above men¬ tioned of the mucous membrane of the nofe or B lungs