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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    On the Origin^ Symptoms, and Treatment of Difeafes produced by the Abforption of morbific Animal Matter, and which in Appearance frequently refem* hie Syphilis. SECT. t. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. SINCE the publication of Mr. Hunter's accurate obfervations on the Venereal Difeafe, it has been generally admitted that certain modifications of animal matter, being applied to a fufceptible furface of the body, will in many inftances excite an ulcerative difeafe, in which the difeafed part fecretes mat- ter precifely fimilar to that which had excited it. Thefe kinds of infe6tious matter Mr. Hun- ter called morbid animal poifons, in order to diftinguifti them from thofe poifons with which fome animals are furnifhed for purpofes con- nefted with their economy. Mr. Hunter fur- ther {hewed that the animal matter of one per- voL. II, B fon