Gonorrhœa as Treated in Vernacular Medical Literature, Especially with Reference to Its Therapeutics

lent discharges and it is further added, that ?' in the male this is frequently attended with an inflammation of the testicle, .and in some cases is followed by symptoms referable to the joints and eye." Though in the present day this primary affection of the generative organs has the popular name of Sozdk, and the same name is given to it by the learned writers in Persian or Urdu, such a disease as a definite entity, and in the exclusive sense of the modern nomenclature in English, is nowhere described either as sozdk or under any single name in the old medical works of India. But in them, the symptoms of some different stages of gonorrhoea can be perceived as comprised in the description of several different diseases. (3). Thus, in the Arabic and Persian works the disease is found to be included in the account of Ifurkat-ul-baol * of a