. A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female ... ing at the anus, the folds of which were state excited an imperious desire to scratch, so far as, often, to produce excoriations. No treatment was adopted ; and the means of cleanliness were even neglected, as thepatient declared to us that he had not taken a bath for ten years. Nevertheless, the itch-ings disappeared after a score of days; or, at least, they changed in their nature, and be-came much less intense. Such were the
. A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female ... ing at the anus, the folds of which were state excited an imperious desire to scratch, so far as, often, to produce excoriations. No treatment was adopted ; and the means of cleanliness were even neglected, as thepatient declared to us that he had not taken a bath for ten years. Nevertheless, the itch-ings disappeared after a score of days; or, at least, they changed in their nature, and be-came much less intense. Such were the precursory symptoms of the actual affection. Very small granulationswere at first shown on the sides of the anus ; then the eruption increased, step by step,with a constant progress, until it is now developed into a mass of vegetations, at all timesbathed by a muco-purulent secretion, that the slightest touch of the diseased parts willrender sanious. We can, also, see here the characters assigned to different varieties of vegetations. Some,at the commencement, offer simple isolated granulations, due to the extroversion of mucous 154 PI ill •>. i:\ri. \\ v HOW OF PLi I B ml, BIS. * IA5 or cutaneous follicles; others, more advanced) are themselves covered with granulatimor ? projecting, and most of them, arc agglomerated in loi ? or deci- dedbj prediculated, and sustained by a single stalk, in some in itance ? quhfc thick, beainumerous branches. On the buttocks, and in the parts where they are freely developed, tinyrepresent very well the cauliflower, whilst in tin immediate vicinity of the anus, pre edbe lateral masses, they have the form of the comb of a cock, or of raspberries* Wealso, that their consistence and the thickness of the epidermis that covers them varies,irding as they are more or less exposed to the drying action of the air. <)n the foldtho anus, they are humid, friable, bleed easily, and are bathed by an abundant secretion of pusand mucus. But, in propor
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