Surgical observations on diseases resembling syphilis : and on diseases of the urethra / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Surgical observations on diseases resembling syphilis : and on diseases of the urethra / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    like the former ones, now broke out, but the difcharge from the urethra had ceafed. At this period he applied to me, and gave me the foregoing narrative of his diforder, with an affurance that he had expofed himfelf to no new rilk of infection. I employed only local means for their cure, being fatisiied by the hiftory as well as the appearance of the fores that they were not fyphilitic. Near a month elapfed before any confiderable amend- ment took place, when a fwelling appeared in the groin, and the fores healed fuddenly in a few days. Leaches and Goulard's w^afh. were employed to difperfe the bubo, but hi vain : it fuppurated, and formed a very un- healthy abcefs. There was a great deal of furrounding eryfipelatous inflammation, the cuticle feparated from the furface of the bubo, the Ikin became livid, and gave dif- charge to the matter by a partly floughing and partly ulcerating procefs. This, hov/- ever, proved the crifis of the complaint: the abfcefs having thus broken filled up, and healed in the courfe of about three weeks, fince which the patient has had no return of F 4 difeafe.