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Excerpt from The Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases: Including the Results of Recent Investigations Upon the Subject Among the Greeks and Romans, gonorrhoea appears to have been less common than among the Hebrews; still, unquestionable traces Of it are found. Hippocrates describes five kinds Of leucorrhoea, in addition to discharges dependent upon in ammation Of the womb, which are mentioned separately. Herodotus states that the Scythians made an irruption into Palestine and pillaged the temple Of Venus Urania. The angry Goddess sent upon' them and their posterity the woman's disease, which is characterized by a running from the penis. Those attacked by it are looked upon as accursed. Celsus2 was also acquainted with balanitis and gonorrhoea; the lat ter dependent, as he supposed, upon an ulcer within the urethra; and Cicero says that incontinence gives rise to dysuria, in the same manner that high living causes diarrhoea. 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."