Clinical lectures on venereal diseases / by Richard Carmichael ... Reported by Samuel Gordon.

  • Richard Carmichael
Date:
1842
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    or other causes, the brain or lungs are most liable to become affected, and effusion upon these organs, under such circumstances, may terminate, rapidly, the patient’s existence. The object of the practitioner, under such un- toward circumstances, is, by stimulants and heat to the surface—either by the hot bath or warm air, to bring back the eruption to the skin, which affords the most likely means of averting the formidable train of symptoms consequent upon its sudden and premature disappearance. Now, the precise same law manifests itself in the government of every form of venereal disease, but modified in each form, or individual morbid poison. For instance, when the pustular, or tu- bercular, venereal eruptions are removed prema- turely from the skiu, and not allowed to develope themselves according to the respective laws of the morbid poison to which each appertains; instead of t]ie brain or lungsbeing, in consequence, assailed, the periosteum and bones, as well as other deep-seated parts, seem to suffer. When the papular venereal eruption suddenly disappears, the periosteum and bones are not consequently affected ; but the patient will suffer from increased severity of the pains of his joints and head; and, frequently, iritis occurs, also attended with more or less of constitutional disturb- ance, which may be succeeded by a fresh crop of the eruption that usually brings with it considerable re- lief, but which will recur again and again ifinjudi-