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Title: A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female ..
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Bostwick, Homer
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases
Publisher: New York, Burgess, Stringer & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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with; and this proves that chancres of thegums are much more rare than virulent ulcerations of the lips and of the tongue, which wehave had occasion to observe many times. This ulceration, which is not of long standing,followed the ordinary progress of non-indurated chancre. It was cured under the influ-ence of cauterizations often repeated with the nitrate of silver, and of lotions with the aro-matic wine. The design, in signalizing this example, is to prove that the inoculable virulent syphili-tic pus, has not for its seat of election such-or-such organs in particular, and that it acts al-ways, at first locally, in every place where it meets with the conditions necessary for itsdevelopment. This case proves, farther, that the gravity of syphilis does not depend, ashas been said, upon the situation of the primitive accident. The patient had not receivedany constitutional infection, as we were able to verify, a long time after such symptomsought to have been manifested. 112 o ■ * 5
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