The Medico-Chirurgical Review Volume 28 (Paperback)

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. 1836 Excerpt: ...forms of syphilitic eruptions--the fourth is on the most inveterate secondary symptoms--and the filth is on mercury, and "on a new remedy" where mercury fails.. A large, indeed by far the largest, portion of the work consists of cases, usually reported with diurnal details, and arranged without any very apparent regularity or method. In the section, for example, on urethritis, the history and account of the disorder occupy four pages, and the reports of cases ninety-five--a proportion closely resembling the ratio of the sack to the bread in FalstafT'sbill. We shall now proceed without further preface, to the work itself. Where we differ from our author, we shall freely express our dissent, because we believe that too many of the notions propagated and prevailing on the subject of venereal maladies are erroneous, or actually pernicious. We observed that four pages only are devoted to the subject of gonorrhaea, or, as Mr. Judd prefers to term it, urethritis venerea, We regret this, because there is no good account of this venereal affection. Many of its concomitants, and some of some of its consequences, have not been noticed, or, if noticed they have been so very imperfectly. Yet, short as Mr. Judd's description is, we differ wholly from him in many particulars. Urethritis, he says, is a primary syphilitic affection, and is tantamount, except as to the structure it invades, to a venereal sore, and even becomes one when it causes, which it occasionally does, ulceration of the lining membrane within the uretha. This is the revival of the old notion of the identity of syphilis and gonorrham. Mr. Judd does not attempt to tell us why there should be such very broad distinctions between the phenomena, the progress, and the consequences of the two disease...