An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / [Charles Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, Charles, 1750-1815
Date:
1784
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Credit: An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / [Charles Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iv PREFACE. tioning a very few of the fymptoms; and if they have touched on the method of cure, it has been in fuch general or ambiguous terms, as to afford little fatisfaction to thofe who jland mofe in need of infer uff ion. I may alfo add, that, as the fe¬ male organs of generation differ from thofe be¬ longing to the other fex, fo do the venereal fymp¬ toms, affeffing thofe organs, vary from the ap¬ pearance they affume in males. But this dijlinc- tion being mofe effential in what is called the firfe feage of the difeafe, I feoall confine myfelf to the confederation of that only. As my intention is purely to put a compendious account of the appearance and treatment of the female gonorrhoea, into the hands of the junior branches of the profeffion, who, in general, have hut obfcure ideas of thofe matters, I /hall convey my fentiments in as few words as poffible, and avoid entering into theoretical difquifetions, which have a greater tendency to miflead than to convey any ufeful information. Qui fpeculentur non medentur. Some of the obfer vat ions may be thought newr hut others muft unavoidably be fuch as are to be found elfewhere however, I fubmit the whole, on a firm affurance that it is founded, on reafon and experience. Great Ruflel-Street, Bloom/bury, Dec. z8j 1782. AN