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tremely paiaful.and frequent; ” 
though he feels a. conftant inclination this way, ist i 
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an affemblage of difeafes, than a fingle one. No two difeafes can require a more dif- 
ferent method of treatment than this does in its different ftages. Hence the folly and 
danger of trufting to any particular noftrum for the cure of it. Such noftrams are 
however generally adminiftered in the fame manner to all who apply for them, with- 
out the leaft regard to the ftate of the difeafe, the conftitution of the patient, the de- 
gree of infe€tion, and a thoufand other circumftances of the utmoft inyportance. 
Though the venereal difeafe is generally the fruit of unlawfal embraces, yer it may - 
be communicated to the innocent as well as the guilty. Infants, nurfes, midwives, 
and married women whofe hufbands lead diffolute lives, are often affected with it, and 
frequently lofe their lives by not being aware of their danger indue time. The un- 
happy condition of fuch perfons certainly requires that we fhould endeavour to point 
out the fymptoms and cure of this too common difeafe. 
Or tur VIRULENT GONORRHG@A. 
THE virulent gonorrhcea is an involuntary difcharge of infeCtious matter from 
the parts of generation in either fex. It generally makes its appearance. within 
eight or ten days after the infection has been received ; fometimes indeed it appears 
in two or three days, and at other times not before the end. of four or five weeks. 
Previous to the difcharge, the patient feels an itching with a {mall degree of pain in 
the genitals. Afterwards a thin glary matter begins to diftil from the urinary paf- 
fage, which ftains the linen, and occafions a {mall degree of titillation, particularly 
in the time of making water ; this, gradually increafing, arifes at length to a degree 
of heat. and pain, which are chiefly perceived about the extremity of the urinary 
paflage, where a flight degree of rednets and inflammation begin to appear. As the 
diforderadvances, the pain, heat of urine, and running, increale, while frefh fymp- 
toms daily enfue. In men the erections become painful and involuntary, and are 
| ) This fymptom is moft troublefome 
when the patient is warm in bed. The pain, which was at firft only perceived to- 
wards the extremity, now begins to reach all up the urinary paffage, and is mott 
pal | The running gradually re- 
intenfe juft after the patient has done making water. ee 
| at length puts on the appearance 
cedes from the colour of feed, grows yellow, and at Hetty CROAT ih e 
of matter. When the diforder has arrived at its height, all the fymptoms shine 
intenfe; the heat of urine is fo great,. that the patient an is the making water, an, 3 
“drops : the javoluntary erections aow becom 
chitin is alfo a pain,heat, and fenfe of fulnels, about 
the feat, and the: running, is plen cif " and fharp, of a brown greenith,, and, iden 
of a bloody, colour. a ia Gee ee EE {BRE 
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difficulty, and often only by. 
is rendered with the gre ea 
