An attempt to simplify the treatment of sexual diseases / by James Thorn.

  • Thorn, James.
Date:
1831
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Credit: An attempt to simplify the treatment of sexual diseases / by James Thorn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ions, or without callosity, by applying to them, alternately, irritating and soothing applications. It is the same with the exhalation pro- duced by every inflamed or ulcerated sur- face ; for daily experience shews us, that the least change of regimen, or temperature, in short, every cause of irritation, changes, in a very sudden manner, matter of a fa- vourable appearance, to a yellow, green, or bloody discharge. On this head, moreover, the peculiar em- ployment of mercury for the cure of syphi- lis, does not afford any better argument; for, from the recent experience of the British army surgeons, the following conclusions may be fairly drawn. 1. That all sores on the genitals are cura- ble without mercury. 2. That the time required for the cure of primary sores, by the non-mercurial plan, is not greater than when mercury is employed, though the cicatrices sometimes ulcerate again. 3. That secondary symptoms occur in one in ten of cases where no mercury is
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