A review of the venereal disease, and its remedies / [Sir William Fordyce].

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792
Date:
1772
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Credit: A review of the venereal disease, and its remedies / [Sir William Fordyce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It deferves particular notice, that every thing promoting erections of the penis increafes inflammation, fends the in¬ fection further hack into the urethra, keeps up the difeafe, and often fubjects the patient to all the inconveniences of a frefh antiphlogiftic regimen for two or three weeks, in the fame manner as if the cure was but juft begun* Among the caufes of fuch erections, may be reckoned chiefly a turtle feaft*, a fi(h diet, hearty dinners, onions, fpiceries*fv # I have not only often feen the difeafe recur, with all the fymptoms of its fir ft ftage5 in confequence of a turtle feaft; but have once known a running, with inflammation, brought on by the fame means, in a fober married man, who had been free from infedtion for many years: at leaf! I could not trace it to any other ffeurce. + I am. informed by a friend lately arrived from the iflands of Bourbon, that, having one day put a par-, cel of the Cayenne pepper in a handkerchief round his waift, his black fervant told him, it would give him the clap. He had not feen a woman for eight months before*