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

  • Richard Carmichael
Date:
1842
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    ciously treated. The more frequent causes of this premature removal of those eruptions from the sur- face, are either imprudent exposure to cold and moisture, or to the too early and injudicious use of mercury, before the eruption has indicated by its desquamation or scaliness, that it is naturally on the decline. We can easily comprehend why cold and wet, ap- plied to the skin, should repel that action of its ves- sels necessary to the development ofan eruption ; but why mercury should produce a similar effect is not quite so obvious—that it does, however, possess this power, the experience of every practitioner proves; perhaps, this powerful mineral, by exciting a new action, suspends, on the Hunterian doctrine, that of the morbid poison, and thus the natural develop- ment of the eruption is interrupted. In support of this view of the laws by which venereal poisons are governed (and of which we could never acquire any adequate or certain knowledge as long as it was the practice to exhibit mercury for every form and stage of these diseases), I need only state the fact, now generally admitted, that in those cases treated without mercury, the secondary symptoms are particularly mild, and the bones are seldom or never affected. There is nothing more worthy of notice in pa- thology than the regularity which nature observes with respect to the characters and symptoms of morbid poisons—making allowance for difference
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