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 will not spontaneously produce it,provided the party be clean, for that surely is not an ex-cess; but having connexion with an infected one, andthereby exposing a healthy surface to a diseased one, be-comes an infraction of vine of natures laws. Well, thepatient contaminating the other must have a chancre,which giving off, by contact, its morbid secretion, produ-ces a specific re
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 will not spontaneously produce it,provided the party be clean, for that surely is not an ex-cess; but having connexion with an infected one, andthereby exposing a healthy surface to a diseased one, be-comes an infraction of vine of natures laws. Well, thepatient contaminating the other must have a chancre,which giving off, by contact, its morbid secretion, produ-ces a specific result, namely, a small pimple. In men, the disease is generally contracted upon thefraenum, slans penis, or prepuce, or upon the common skinof the body of the penis, but most frequently upon the in-terior. From the peculiar and alterable structure of thepenis and its prepuce, the poison, unless well washed off,is apt to lodge in the folds thereof, and sooner or later itmanifests its influence, which may occur in twenty-fourhours, or may be withheld for months. Generally, how-ever, seven or cLht or nine days puts the patient out ofsuspense. The first symptoms consist in an itching, sue- 88 A POPULAR ceeded by a redness of the part, out of which is soon ob-served to spring up a small elevation or pimple. In con-nexions where haste, disproportion of size, or much ex-citement or excess prevails, an absolute abrasion of theskin often takes place, and the parts where such occur aregenerally the everted portion of the prepuce, or the frae-num of the same. The accompanying drawings represent the extent of theredness and the first appearance ofthe pimple. The upper diagramalludes to the irritation and excori-ation around the fraenum, and thelower, the first evidence of a chan-cre. I am describing the most com-mon form of chancre, such as isknown in the profession as chancre. A perceptiblehardness next ensues round the pim-ple, which becomes more elevated when it ulc
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