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 . he subjacent circle thickerand thicker, and of the same color as the cuticle whichpeels oil*. In the ordinary uninterrupted progression, scabsform, suppurate, and constitute an ulcer, like a chancre,•which ulcer assumes all the varieties of chancre. In , the eruption, instead of being scaly, has a raised?surface, from which a whitish matter usually scaly copper-
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 . he subjacent circle thickerand thicker, and of the same color as the cuticle whichpeels oil*. In the ordinary uninterrupted progression, scabsform, suppurate, and constitute an ulcer, like a chancre,•which ulcer assumes all the varieties of chancre. In , the eruption, instead of being scaly, has a raised?surface, from which a whitish matter usually scaly copper-colored eruption, denominated, accord-ing to its severity andappearance, syphilit-ic lepra or psoriasis,is regarded as mostcharacteristic of truesyphilis, and is themost frequent. Theannexed is a drawingcopied from nature;it is alluded to a fewpages further on : itspattern is frequentlyto be met with. Acelebrated writer, , attachesconsiderable impor-tance to the characterand appearance of theeruptions. He dividesthe venereal diseaseinlo four species orvarieties : 1st, thescaly venereal dis-ease, which he con-siders consequent up-on the ordinary chan-cre; 2d, the papular,consequent upon gon-. ON VENEKEAL DISEASES. 119 orrhcEal ulceration; 3d, the tubercular; and 4th, thepustular, he names from its appearance. These dis-tinctions, if correct, must be more interesting to the sur-geon, than serviceable to the patient, for the principles oftreatment must be alike in all. Now, although mercurymay be denied to possess any specific influence over thesyphilitic poison, either by its chemical action or neutral-izing power, except as a counter-irritant to the system, yetthe inability of nature to shake oft the pestilential hydra,unassisted by the weapons of the physician, is most appa-rent ; and the most powerful of which is, that class ofmedicines called alteratives, none of which are more de-serving:, none more manageable, if the least judgment bedisplayed, than mercury.
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