Reprint of two tracts : 1. An essay on gleets. 2. An enquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of a singular disease of the eyes / by Jean Paul Marat ; edited with an introduction by James Blake Bailey.

  • Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Reprint of two tracts : 1. An essay on gleets. 2. An enquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of a singular disease of the eyes / by Jean Paul Marat ; edited with an introduction by James Blake Bailey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    tunic, as happens after too freely enjoying the bottle and the company of women, or from a rarefaction of the fluids *, caused by the expansion of the internal air; as happens in spring and autumn, two seasons where the atmosphere, being less elastic, does not oppose so great a resistance to the action of the internal air. Formerly the running was attributed to a relaxation of the affected parts, an opinion still in credit among the ignorant ; but by introducing a probe in the urethra, every one may be convinced that it is wholly caused by ulcers. Damn, who first made this discovery, attempted to cure gleets by suppurative bougies. His method was soon adopted as the most rational, and ever since followed by the best practitioners. Undoubtedly it proved successful in many cases ; but in many others proved abortive, even in the hands of Daran himself Long I had not seen bougies employed for curing gleets, without finding them often in- effectual : however, as it was not my province to treat venereal diseases, this method had not engaged my attention. Mere chance after- wards obliged tne to turn my thoughts to the * A proof of it is, that in this case the running is ever accom- panied with a sensation of scalding, which is not felt in the other case.