A Treatise on the Venereal Disease: By John Hunter

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الصفحة 323 - Two punctures were made on the penis with a lancet dipped in venereal matter from a gonorrhoea; one puncture was on the glans, the other on the prepuce.
الصفحة 202 - ... himself, that he would not have any connection with her for six nights, let his inclinations and powers be what they would ; which he engaged to do, and also to let me know the result.
الصفحة 202 - As this arose entirely from the state of the mind, produced by a particular circumstance, the mind was to be applied to for the cure ; and I told him that he might be cured if he could perfectly rely on his own power of self-denial.
الصفحة 201 - ... respecting the act, we must see that it may very often happen that the state of mind will be such as not to allow the animal to exert its natural powers ; and every failure increases the evil. We must also see from this...
الصفحة 293 - ... that the secretions from the secondary syphilitic affections were not inoculable. He mentions, however, that it was asserted in his day that ulcers in the mouths of children derived from constitutional and hereditary disease, produced the same disease upon the nipples of women who suckled them. That is, the children were contaminated either by their mothers or fathers ; the child received the disease by hereditary descent ; and the nurse was infected by the child. " If," Hunter observes, " it...
الصفحة 200 - Copulation is an act of the body, the spring of which is in the mind; but it is not volition; and according to the state of the mind so is the act performed.
الصفحة 291 - ... number of pocky sores; and before I put him under a mercurial course I made the following experiment: I took some matter from one of the sores upon the point of a lancet, and made three small wounds upon the back, where the skin was smooth and sound, deep enough to draw blood. I made a wound similar to the other three, with a clean lancet, the four wounds making a quadrangle; but all the wounds healed up, and none of them ever appeared after.
الصفحة 5 - In like manner J. Hunter (On the Venereal Diseaxe, p. 13) says that wine and cordials given to the weak increase the action without giving real strength, and the powers of the body are afterwards sunk proportionally as they have been raised, by which nothing can be gained, but a great deal may be lost.
الصفحة 200 - There is perhaps no act in which a man feels himself more interested, or is more anxious to perform well, his pride being engaged in some degree, which, if within certain bounds, would produce a degree of perfection in an act depending upon the will, or an act in voluntary parts; but when it produces a state of mind contrary to that state, on which the perfection of the act depends, a failure must be the consequence. "The body is not only rendered incapable of performing this act, by the mind being...
الصفحة 201 - ... a defect somewhere, which I supposed to be from the mind. I inquired if all women were alike to him; his answer was, no; some women he could have connection with as well as ever. This brought the defect, whatever it was, into a...

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