Observations upon the new opinions of John Hunter, in his late Treatise on the venereal disease, ending with the subject of gonorrhoea, and second part of his work : to be continued / by Jessé Foot, surgeon.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1787
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    ( ) Page 29. Of Gonorrhoea, At length we are arrived at the imme* dlate fubjedt of gonorrhoea, and I congratu- late my readers upon it ; for upon this theme, ingenious as the Profeffor is allowed to be, I think he will not have the opportunity of flourifhing beyond all comparifon. He tells us, and very properly, that *' when an irritating matter of any kind is applied to a fecreting furface, it encreafes that, fecretion. But he tells us alfo, but not with the fame propriety, that this ir- ritatihg matter changes the fecretion, which in the prefent difeafe is pus. The Profeffor fays, that until about the year 1753, it was generally fuppofed that '* the matter from the Urethra in a gonorrhoea arofe from an ulcer or ulcers in that paf- *' fage; but from obfervation it was then proved that this was not the cafe. I be- lieve with the ProfelTor, that it is now uni- Verfally underftood that ulcers in the Urethra do not prevail at leafl in a recent gonorrhoea ; or