A treatise on the venereal disease / by John Hunter ; with copious additions, by Philip Ricord ; translated and edited, with notes, by Freeman J. Bumstead.

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793.
Date:
1859
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by John Hunter ; with copious additions, by Philip Ricord ; translated and edited, with notes, by Freeman J. Bumstead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    EDITOR'S PREFACE. In the early part of the present year, M. Eournier, Interne of the Hopital du Midi, published a volume of notes of the recent lectures of M. Eicord on Chancres; enriched, also, by many remarks of M. Eicord in his clinical instruction at the bedside.1 This volume was issued with the approval of M. Eicord, and under his supervision, sp that it bears all the authority of the name of this eminent surgeon. Though apparently limited in its subject, this work, in reality, em- braces most of the important points connected with Syphilis. It is especially worthy of notice, since it contains those modifications of the views of M. Eicord and others, which recent investigation, excited by the increased interest in the doctrines of syphilis during the last few years, has introduced. The American Editor of Eicord and Hunter has made a free trans- lation of those portions of M. Fournier's work which are new, and added them in a condensed form, to the notes of the present edition. He would invite particular attention to the notes relating to the im- portant distinction between infecting and non-infecting chancres, their diagnosis and treatment; the affections of the lymphatic ganglia cor- responding to each; the laws of transmission of these two varieties of chancre; the question of the unity or duality of the syphilitic virus; the treatment of constitutional syphilis, and the curative and prophylactic effect of chlorate of potash on mercurial salivation. It is believed by the Editor that the present edition of Eicord and 1 Lemons sur le Chancre, professes, par le Dr. Ricord, Chirurgien de VHdpital du Midi, etc., ridige'es et publUes par Alfred Fournier, Interne de VHdpital du Midi. Paris, 1858.