A complete treatise, on the origin, theory, and cure of the lues venerea : and obstructions in the urethra, illustrated by a great variety of cases : being a course of twenty-three lectures, read in Dean-Stret [sic], Soho, in the years 1790 and 1791 / by Jesse Foot, surgeon.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A complete treatise, on the origin, theory, and cure of the lues venerea : and obstructions in the urethra, illustrated by a great variety of cases : being a course of twenty-three lectures, read in Dean-Stret [sic], Soho, in the years 1790 and 1791 / by Jesse Foot, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURE III. Historical Testimonies in favour of the disease being introduced into Europe on the return of Columbus from the Western Islands of America, from page 91 to page 106. The Author’s summary on the subject, page 107. The silence of Authors before the time of Columbus’s return—the difficulty of ascertaining the true nature of the disease, from page 107 to 113. The definition of Authors cotemporary with the return of Columbus, proving strongly the introduction of the disease into Europe to be on the return of his crew from the Western Islands, from page 113 to 114. The Venereal Disease compared with the Lepra, page 115. The Venereal Disease being carried to Otaheite, adduced in confirmation of the possibility of the disease being conveyed from one climate to another, page 116. Observations upon its introdudlion there, from page 116 to 119. The virulence of the disease not naturally abated, but the present lenity of it owing to the aCtion of mercury, from page 119 to 120. LECTURE IV. On the Nature and Action of the Venereal Disease, p. 121. Definition of the venereal poison. Distinction between a contagious and an infectious disease, page 121. The difficulty of defining the disease consisting in its aCtion on various anatomical parts, thereby producing similar disease on them to other diseases from other causes, and to which such various anatomical parts are liable, from page 122 to page 123. Reasons assigned why medical Authors couli not positively define the disease, from page 123 to 132. The common way of propagating the disease ex- plained, page 132. Erroneous judgments formed of infection in case of a rape, page 132. The Author’s opinions on the natural aCtion of the poison—compared with Mr. John Hunter’s, page 135. The subjeCt continued, from page 135 to 145. The two first symptoms of venereal infection. Gonorrhoea and Chancre, considered, from page 145 to 146. The cause of one symptom appearing in preference to the other, from page 146 to 149. The difficulty there is in some subjects to be infeCted, who are most in the way of infection, from 149 to 150. The Author’s newly-discovered Theory so far explained, as to illustrate the present subjeCt, from page 150 to 154. LECTURE. V. On Gonorrhoea, p. 155. Venereal infection conveyed always in a substantial form, page 155. That part re- ceives the infection which comes into contaCt with the infeCting fluid, 155. Gonor- rhoea