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

  • Armstrong, Charles, 1750-1815.
Date:
1783
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Credit: An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / by Charles Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    vagina is wrinkled, and furniflied with innumerable febaceous glandules pro- per to receive, and retain, the venereal virus; part of whiqh lodging, in a fhort time produces a gonorrhoea. But inftances are not wanting, of females being infedted fine coitu. I have a pa- tient, juft recovered from one of the worft: gonorrhoeas I ever faw, who never admitted the embraces-of any man. She was difeafed by the, brutal attempts of an infedted favage. Hildanus relates a cafe.to this effedt, though he ac/«.ounts differently for the infedlion. A young lady of a lively difpofition, witk ibme fprightly female companions, took, it irito their heads to exchange dreffes^ with fome young men of their acquaintance. In a (hort time, Hildanus's patient felt- great pain and inflammation about the pudenda, which was foon overfpread with chancres. The difeafe proceeded rapidly, and put a period to her exift- ence, after flie had fuffered the moft cxcru-