Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In Commentary 35 he says ;— “ A gentleman, aged thirty-six, married to an intemperate and dissolute wife, contracted syphilis from her, and had a hard sore, which was not diagnosed at first, and for which he had but little treatment. After seeming to heal, it relapsed, and became phagedaenic, and he was covered with a secondary eruption which, after a few months, took on the type of rupia. It lasted on and off for a year in spite of treatment, and at the end of that time the sores were becoming lupoid. I saw him for the first time at this stage, and although he had been under treatment he was still covered with eruption. He was thin and cachectic, and the lower part of his glans had been destroyed by phagedaena^ and the urethra opened. This is an instance of insusceptibility to cure by treatment, for which there was nothing to account in the patient’s antecedents, as he was of temperate habits, and had always enjoyed excellent health.” A similar case is mentioned in Commentary 83 “A young gentleman of fortune suffered from primary disease, and had an exceedingly hard sore, which was deeply ulcerated. This sore