Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: place, and from the antiphlogiftic remedies employed for the cure of the dif- eafe. SECTION II. Of the Prognofis in Gonorrhoea Virulent a. TN every difeafe, it is of importance for a practitioner to be able to fay at what time and in what manner it will terminate. In none is information of this kind more anxioufly wifhed for than in Gonorrhoea. The hopes and fears of patients lead them equally to wifh for it; but, from various caufes, and more particularly from want of attention to the exact fite of the difeafe, the duration of Gonorrhoea has always been a matter of much uncertainty. I have obferved above, that, on diffec- tion, four different fet of parts are found at different times to be the feat of Gonorrhoea. When the running proceeds from the extremity, or from within about an inch and a half of the extremity of the penis, .as happens in perhaps nine cafes out of ten, there will, for the moft part, be tnuch caufe to hope that a cure will foon be obtained. In fuch inftances, when the patient is otherwife in good health, and when he does not interrupt the operation of the necefTary remedies by improper conduct, the difeafe will not commonly endure a fortnight. Nay, a cure in fuch circumftancee is often obtained in two or three days: but, whenever the lower parts of the urethra are affected, particularly when the proftate gland and other parts about the neck of the bladder are difeafed, the running, in almoft every inflance, proves obftinate. Even our moft powerful remedies in other cafes of clap are here doubtful in their effects. Hence Fa nono certain opinion can be formed of the event of the difeafe. When thefe .deep-feated parts are affected, the difeafe proves always tedious, whatever the habit of body may be; but it necelTarily proves much more fo when the …
