May be even true of sex

Usage examples of venereal.

Dieter had given her something venereal, although her memory of that brothel in Kamathipura, and how familiarly Dieter had spoken with the madam, gave Nancy good reason to be worried.

A peculiar character of the diseases which have their origin in venereal excesses and masturbation is chronicity.

And as to men, first, how they can cast an obstructive spell on the procreant forces, and even on the venereal act, so that a woman cannot conceive, or a man cannot perform the act.

First they visited a venereal diseases clinic in Cheltenham to ensure that they were suffering from no sexually transmitted diseases.

Your new lover has syphilis, gonorrhoea, and four other venereal diseases for which the queen has no English names.

It will cure virulent syphilis and gonorrhoea -- and the two dozen or more other venereal diseases Cathy says humans give each other but have yet to discover -- in less than a day.

Earth science learns to combat venereal disease and reduce conception, as London grows, becomes more prosperous and restricts entry to prostitution, such infusion will decrease.

This was a reference to ophthalmia neonatorum, the blindness of newborn infants caused by mothers infected with venereal disease.

Thus we may trace back this low and morbid condition of the blood to debility of the nutritive organs, defective digestion, which may be induced by irregular habits, a lack of nourishing food, or by the acquirement of some venereal taint.

And it is easy to account for the manner of action of this pathogenetic cause, if we consider how probable it is that the ejaculation and contact of the sperm with the uterine neck, constitutes, for the woman, the crisis of the genital function, by appeasing the venereal orgasm and calming the voluptuous emotions under the action of which the entire economy is convulsed.

Mann quotes Munde in speaking of an instance of removal of elephantiasis of the vulva without interrupting pregnancy, and says that there are many cases of the removal of venereal warts without any interference with gestation.

As regards the suggestion that sterilization may lead to new foci of venereal disease, it must be borne in mind that the unsterilized feeble-minded are already prone to sexual promiscuity, and there is no evidence that sterilization would increase this tendency.

An inveterate leucorrhoea is not exactly a venereal disease, and I have heard people in London say that it was rarely contagious.

The Chevalier Cocona, who had the misfortune to be suffering from a venereal disease, gave me up his mistress, a pretty little 'soubrette'.

I say by his fault, but I should have said by the fault of his doctors, who treated him mercurially for a disease which was not venereal.