chanker

Updated: June 6, 2025

In this disease the actions of these vessels producing ulcers on the throat and skin are imperfect imitations of those producing chanker, or gonorrhoea; since the matter produced by them is not infectious, while the imitative actions in the hydrophobia appear to be perfect resemblances, as they produce a material equally infectious with the original one, which induced them.

Erasmus Darwin - Zoonomia, Vol. I: Or, the Laws of Organic Life