On Syphilis and Gonorrhœa

Abstract

ordinary lesions of meningitis. The suppression of urine might, perhaps, be accounted for, by a granular state of the kidneys; and the hypogastric tumour was a piliferous ovarian cyst, containing atheromatous matter, with hair, and a fragment of bone, resembling a portion of the maxilla bone, from which arose five teeth. If the patient had not been moribund, we have no doubt that those who attended the case would have required the conviction of its being ovarian, by examining it carefully; as it was, they provided against the retention of urine. The urine, had it passed, would have indicated the granular state of the kidneys.