A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female (1848) (14766764142)

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Title: A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female ..
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Bostwick, Homer
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases
Publisher: New York, Burgess, Stringer & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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S,v— 0 z ■1 CHAPTER XIII. GONORRHOEA. •Its definition. — Its synonyms. — Its antiquity.—Maybe produced by a leucorrhocal discbarge. — Un-til lately regarded as a variety of syphilis.— May be complicated with syphilis. — Difference in theliability of individuals to contract it. — The matter will retain its infectious character for a long pe-riod.— Cases. — Varieties of the disease. — Symptoms of the disease, in the male, in the first, sec-ond, and third stages. — Prognosis very difficult Goxorrtice v is the name most generally given to the second order of venerealaffections, now considered by the highest authorities non-virulent. The name,though certainly false in its original signification of a flow of semen, is yet the oneadopted by general usage, and is no more objectionable than a hundred others. Thenames of Blenorrhoea, and Blenorrhagia, have been adopted by recent writers, butthere seems to be no great necessity for such a nicety of terms where the dis