Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . of the urethra—no unfrequent seat ofchancre. Many ulcers assume a very indolentform, and remain quiescent for a longperiod. One patient I knew, who con-sulted me for rheumatism, and who dis-avowed ever having had syphilis. Hetook vapor baths, which assuased the pain, but did not re-move it. Accident discovered to me the existence of asore on the penis, by observing the dressings of
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . of the urethra—no unfrequent seat ofchancre. Many ulcers assume a very indolentform, and remain quiescent for a longperiod. One patient I knew, who con-sulted me for rheumatism, and who dis-avowed ever having had syphilis. Hetook vapor baths, which assuased the pain, but did not re-move it. Accident discovered to me the existence of asore on the penis, by observing the dressings of the same,carefully placed on the corner of the mantel-piece in thebath-room. The following was the appearance of thesores. He had endured them fornearly three months, nor had he per-ceived much alteration, either forbetter or worse. The disease wasproperly healed, and he soon gotwell. Another kind is one denominatedthe superficial, with raised edees. Itis more frequently seated at the up-per part of the prepuce, and creatinga thickening of it, ending in phymo-sis, which lasts a long time after thecure of the ulcers. This kind of chancre is sometimesvery obstinate, and continues many weeks. The followin™.
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