Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1750. Excerpt: ... after the Cure of an Ulcer in this Part, which has been occasioned by a Gonorrhea. Their Opinion is confirmed to be true, in many Instances, of Bodies that have been opened after Death, labouring under this Complaint. Though in many Cafes alledged by Arneau and Petit, the Cause of this Disorder has been neither a Caruncle nor Cicatrix, but a Tumor formed in the spongy or cavernous Body of the Urethra itself (in the same Manner as the Membranes of the Nose are tumefied in a Coryza) so as to occlude the Passage of that Canal. However, the Experience of one Party may be opposed by the other in this Disorder, they may perhaps both be in the right, as the very fame Disease may proceed from different Causes. Though we find Benevolus, a celebrated Italian Physician of Florence, yet dissenting from both these Opinions. He declares, in an express Treatise on the Subject, that he has always found the Cause of this Disorder to be a Tumor or Ulceration, and Englargement of the natural Tubercle, in the Prostrate, called by Anatomists Caput Gallinaginh; but that he could never yet find the Urine obstructed, in this Complaint, from a Caruncle in the Cavity of the Urethra. He always observed the Obstruction to be more or less, in Proportion to the Quantity of Matter lodged in the Caput Gallinaginis. He fays, the Disorder almost constantly follows a virulent Gonorrhea, and that both its beginning and latter End are accompanied with discharges of purulent Matter and Fibres with the Urine. For my own Part, I must acknowledge there may be Truth on the Side of each of these Gentlemen, though I am not for confining the Disorder to one particular Cause. But which ever Cause, or Opinion, takes Place in this Complaint, it is no great Matter; since the Method of Cure is one and th...
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