A critical enquiry into the ancient and modern manner of treating the diseases of the urethra, with an improved method of cure / by Jesse Foot, of Salisbury-Street; one of the Company of Surgeons in London, and privileged practitioner from the College at St. Petersburgh.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
[1780?]
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the ancient and modern manner of treating the diseases of the urethra, with an improved method of cure / by Jesse Foot, of Salisbury-Street; one of the Company of Surgeons in London, and privileged practitioner from the College at St. Petersburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f ) glanced awry, we may truly fay of him as the phiW* fophers do of Des Cartes, that he was great even in his errors. He makes four fpecies of gonorrhoea, of what we now-a-days would term one, only at- tended by aggravated fymptoms of virulency, produced on the Urethra by time, neglect, bad management, &c. There is a fourth gonorrhoea, (fays he) which differs in lhape from the reftj for after the virulent matter has, by the paffages already defcribed, reached the proftrata;, it waftes their fubftance, and melts it down into a very plentiful mafs of virulent pus. This difeafe fometimes takes its rife from other gonorrhoeas, long continued, but chiefly from often repeated ones. It difcovers itfelf by tumours upon the perinceum, frequently by a very troublefome ifchuria, a plentiful difcharge of fub-putrid pus, and a fuppuration of thofe parts hardly to be flopped. A malignant incurable ulcer very often breaks out upon the perinceum ; fometimes too the parts all around the fituation of the proftrate are moft miferably ulcerated, by which means the neighbouring parts are deftroyed and become a very mocking fpeftacle. But one of « the moft common fymptoms of this difeafe is, D 2 « that