Excerpt from Treatment of the Venereal Disease

If either of the specific virus be deposited upon a mucous mem brane, We have a gonorrhoea; if upon a cutaneous surface, a chancre. Discharges and excoriations resembling a gonorrhoea or chancre, may be caused by local irritation.

A person may contract a very severe discharge from a woman if she has a leucorrhoea, or an acrid vaginal secretion. The cata menia is capable of excoriating and exciting a discharge. The question naturally arises, how are we to distinguish them. The grand diagnostic Sign is the perfect mildness Of that produced by irritation, the absence of acute inflammation, the character Of the patient, the existence Of some Of the foregoing causes.

In gonorrhoea in the female, we have nearly the same symptoms as in the male; heat, pain in micturition, tenderness and soreness, muco-purulent discharge; the parts red, swollen, and it may be, sympathetic enlargement of the inguinal glands.

Acute inflammation Of the mucous membrane Of the labia and vagina, is not at all an unfrequent complaint in very young girls, as a consequence Of some irritation, as teething, worms, constipa tion and the like; and has the same symptoms as gonorrhoea, and requires to be carefully diagnosed. In these cases the anxiety Of the parents must be removed, by informing them that it is a com mon idiopathic affection.

Leucorrhoea is to be distinguished from gonorrhoea by the absence Of heat, pain in micturition; pain in the back, pallid or anemic countenance, irregular catamenia, exhaustion, debility. Sometimes a gonorrhoeal discharge has the same appearances.

Ulcers or excoriations due to irritation, require no specific treat ment for their cure, cleanliness and some antiseptic astringent wash being all that is necessary; whereas, all primary ulcers, due to the action of a specific morbid animal virus, are only to be combated by Specific remedies.

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