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: CHANCROID. Synonyms.?Soft chancre; Simple chancre; Non- infecting chancre; Fr. Chancre mou; Chancrelle (Diday); Ger. Einfacher Schanker; Weicher Schanker. Chancroid is a contagious venereal disease characterized by the occurrence, chiefly in the genital region, of one or more, often several, suppurating and ulcerative lesions, due to the presence of micro-organisms, and not ultimately productive of specific constitutional symptoms. The secretions of a chancroid lesion, when unmingled with those of syphilis, are never succeeded by the symptoms of the last-named disease. It is, however, to be noted that both the virus of syphilis and that of chancroid may be implanted at one moment upon the same susceptible point, and from such a point the phenomena of the two diseases may afterward be evolved. The establishment of an absolute distinction between chancroid and syphilis has been reserved for the latter half of the present century. For a long time after the distinctive differences between the two affections were recognized and classified, the scientific world discussed with energy the questions respecting
the unicity or duality of the chancrous virus. No one, however, at present holds that there is a duality of the syphilitic virus or of chancre. The unicity of each, to employ an outworn phrase, is unquestioned. But it is certain that there is a contagious venereal disease, local in its effects, communicable at the same time with syphilis, the features of which may be confused with those of the initial sclerosis of that disease. To demonstrate without possibility of error that anindividual may be the subject of even a grave ulcerative lesion which is never followed by syphilis, incurred in sexual exposure of the genital region, may be named as one of the achievements …