Observations upon the new opinions of John Hunter in his late treatise on the venereal disease.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1786-87
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Credit: Observations upon the new opinions of John Hunter in his late treatise on the venereal disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    the Profeffor, and to call to my aid every aii- thority that I can. Whoever has confidered what was the caufe of pus, uniformly agrees that it muft arife neceflarily out of a folution of the parts where that pus was formed. Now as no ul- cer is found in a recent gonorrhoea, as no def- truclion of the parts are offered in Vindication of fo uncommon an affertion, that the difcharge from the urethra is pus; why has the Profeffor fo roundly given this fecreted fluid the unqualified appellation of pus ? The definition of the word will not admit its application here, and the de- finition of the difcharge proves that fa£l. A gonorrhoea may appear in fix hours after in- fection, or it may be fix weeks, fo the Pro- feffor admits; but no perfon ever felt irritation in the urethra without looking for, and expeft- ing at the fame time to fee difcharge. The former ia feldom prefent unattended by the lat- ter. Does pur obfervation upon this, anfwer to the idea of' pus ? If without any infectious impu- tation, what the profeffor calls a fimple go- norrhoea makes its appearance, and if, it has followed almoft immediate connexion, here I more