CHANCRE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Chancre

... about nine miles south of ——, a woman, ——, who, shortly after her arrival consulted the late Dr. ——, and was found to be the subject of secondary syphilis.... In all, three cases of gonorrhoea, four of soft chancre (three of whom suffered from phagadoemic ulceration which laid them up for weeks), and six cases of purely syphilitic infection came under my care, all traceable to this same woman. As every case of gonorrhoea and soft chancre ...

— Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) • Committee Of The Board Of Health