Clinical Lectures on Venereal Diseases

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Page 180 - ... is readily perceived. With regard to the certainty of cure, so far as the mercurial treatment is concerned, we must say, with many of our unprejudiced colleagues, that we are convinced, by bitter experience, that syphilis very often returned in the secondary form, after the most cautious use of mercury, the most careful selection of the preparations, the strictest attention to diet, and all proper precautions.
Page 216 - Observations on the Symptoms and Specific Distinctions of Venereal Diseases ; interspersed with Hints for the more Effectual Prosecution of the Present Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Mercury in their Treatment.
Page 33 - Two punctures were made on the penis with a lancet dipped in venereal matter from a gonorrhoea; one puncture was on the glans, the other on the prepuce.
Page 88 - ... and a solution of 100 grains of the nitrate of silver to an ounce of distilled water, are tolerably near the proportions required for the production of the most sensitive papers. I have, however, sometimes obtained very beautiful photographs with these agents united in different proportions from the above.
Page 57 - ... who earnestly implored my assistance. I found him, four days after a connexion in Lisbon, with the whole penis enormously swelled, of a deep red colour ; malignant ugly chancres on different parts of the prepuce, and two on the glans penis ; the appearance of which I can compare to nothing but the holes made by a rusty nail in a piece of mahogany or logwood. He was young, robust, plethoric, and of the sanguine temperament. The skin was hot, pulse sharp and quick, tongue white, and eyes red, though...
Page 178 - Hunterian chancre -with hardened edge and base, and for the scaly eruptions which attend it, as well as the deep excavated ulcer of the tonsil, nodes, and other symptoms belonging to this form of disease, mercury may be esteemed a certain and expeditious remedy.
Page 180 - that secondary symptoms occur in the proportion of at least one in ten in those cases where no mercury is used, whilst, on the contrary, the proportion of such cases is only one to seventy-five, where that remedy has been employed.
Page 193 - ... witness the ravages of glanders. Professor Coleman relates a case, which proves to demonstration the rapid and fatal agency of this cause. " In the expedition to Quiberon, the horses had not been long on board the transports, before it became necessary to shut down the hatchways (we believe for a few hours only) ; the consequence of this was, that some of them were suffocated, and that all the rest were disembarked either glandered or farcied*.
Page 16 - ... them know that in Case of Misdemeanour they will not be suffered to go off securely, but be laid under Confinement by the Beadles. (4) The Queen commands that on every Saturday the Women in the House be singly examined by the Abbess and a Surgeon appointed by the Directors, and if any of them has contracted any Illness by their Whoring, that they be separated from the rest, and not suffered to prostitute themselves, for fear the Youth who have to do with them should catch their Distempers.
Page 182 - ... (except in the true Hunterian chancre), of preventing the accession of secondary symptoms ; thus Dr. Green, in his excellent paper on the treatment of syphilis without mercury, inserted in the...

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