Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A System of Syphilis, Vol. 2 of 5
The very expression, venereal disease, ' carries with it one of the most important advances made in connexion with syphilis during the last half-century. The term was used very loosely for many years, though the writers before 1786 had a tolerably clear idea that three separate diseases were included under the general heading of venereal disease: the lues venerea, which is now called syphilis; a condition associated with a chancre and buboes, known as soft sores; and gonorrhoea, which in their minds was con fused, as it is still by quacks and clap-curers, with any urethral discharge due to causes ranging from a pyonephrosis to a natural seminal emission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
