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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    tended with a Caruncle in the Urethra, which was a disease very common among us anciently: For not to mention other early Writers, our before-mentioned Author gives us the case of a certain Redtor, that had such a substance, like a wart, growing in the Penis, which in another place he says frequently happens; and of another, which had such an excrescence as big as a small strawberry, which (says he) proceeded from the corrupted matter, which remained in the Urethra. And indeed there is not any symptom of the Venereal Disease, that I find so often mentioned as this of the Ca- runcle, insomuch that it seems to have been more common in those early times, than at this day. But this must be certainly owing to the smooth and oily remedies they were continually injecting, which, by their relaxing andsoftening the fibres of the part, must necessarily dispose the contex- ture of small Blood-Vefiels, lodged at the bottom of the little Ulcerations, to fill with nutritious juices, and to ex- tend themselves so, as to form such fungous excrescences 5 and so solicitous wrere they to remove these inconveniences, that they made use of several ways, by Corrosives and other methods, to accomplish this end > and a very early Writer among us, has given us a very methodical and curious tract on this subject, wherein he recommends the removing them by the Medicated Candle, which we use at this day, and lays down divers other instructions, in re- lation