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 . ON VENEREAL crusts are attributable to evaporation of the discharge ; inthe latter, their absence is already explained by the pre-vention of the same. There is such a thing as sympathyin eruptive disorders. In skin affections of the corners ofthe mouths of children, we often see the inflammationcross from corner to corner. The same is observablewhere the attacks comprise


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 . ON VENEREAL crusts are attributable to evaporation of the discharge ; inthe latter, their absence is already explained by the pre-vention of the same. There is such a thing as sympathyin eruptive disorders. In skin affections of the corners ofthe mouths of children, we often see the inflammationcross from corner to corner. The same is observablewhere the attacks comprise the angle of an eye. So is itwith the penis, a structure equally as delicate; and ac-cordingly the edjres of the prepuce often put on a jaggedappearance resembling chaps on hands. Witness the accompanying wood-cut. It portrays anulcer somewhat diffused on theprepuce, and the ragged edge ofthe same structure. The sketchjust introduced was taken froma patient perhaps only a fort-night old with the disease. Beinga rackety, dissipated young man,and regardless of the treatmentsuggested, a weeks neglect pro-duced the following alteration :— A new ulcer sprung up, the oldone increased in size, and the en-tire edge of the prepuce becam


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