Memoir on the treatment of venereal diseases without mercury : employed at the military hospital of the Val-de-Grace / translated from the French of H.M.J. Desruelles ; to which is added Observations on the treatment of the venereal disease without mercury by G.J. Guthrie and various documents showing the results of this mode of treatment in Great Britain, France, Germany, and America.

  • Desruelles, H. M. J. (Henri Marie Joseph), 1791-1858.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Memoir on the treatment of venereal diseases without mercury : employed at the military hospital of the Val-de-Grace / translated from the French of H.M.J. Desruelles ; to which is added Observations on the treatment of the venereal disease without mercury by G.J. Guthrie and various documents showing the results of this mode of treatment in Great Britain, France, Germany, and America. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are a consequence of irritation. This phenome- non acts upon the contaminated organs in four different ways :—1st. The irritation is limited to the surface of a membrane or organ, (urethritis, balanitis, posthitis.) 2d. It destroys more or less deeply several of the tissues, (ulcerations.) 3d. It occasions tumours, (adenites, abscesses of the penis, of the labia and pubis, pustules.) 4th. It excites vegetation of the organic tissues, (excres- cences about the penis and anus, tetters.) The first three forms of irritation are generally pri- mary symptoms—the fourth is generally a se- condary affection. They do not differ from the results of common irritation, and the whole four forms above mentioned may be produced by causes not syphilitic. With respect to the appearances assumed by venereal diseases, there is no special characteris- tic. There is nothing peculiar in their progress or termination, nor is the treatment necessary for their cure, either peculiar or specific. The nature of venereal diseases is one of the most important questions lately discussed; the solution of the question will diffuse the greatest light on the cause of those diseases, and enable 7