Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections / illustrated by a variety of cases.

  • Blair, William, 1766-1822.
Date:
1798-1800
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    Baral two more ‘ venereal patients, who were cured of the ‘* last stage of that disease, after a failure of care- *¢ fully conducted mercurial courses :” (See Dr. Beddoes’s first Reports, pp. 48 and 78.) ¢ *¢ Immediately on receiving your last part of « Considerations on Air, &c. I communicated the ® “success of Mr. Scott’s practice in lues venerea by ® nitric acid, as there narrated, to many of my me- « dical acquaintance: three cases, treated in this * manner, were quickly cured by Dr. Huggan, “ surgeon to the West Kent regiment; and to these * I allude, in my letter to Dr. Rollo. Vide his s* work on Diabetes. Various causes have opposed * my trials of this new medicine ; but I can reckon « six or seven cures, and most of them of long stand- “ gng. In some, mercury had been used without «© effect; in others, the acid was the first antisyphilitic « medicine. It appears to me that careful observers « will soon be able to select particular cases of lues, « that will justify practice in trusting solely to the @ nitric acid: my experience has hitherto been tog « confined to hazard speculation, and from the nu- «© merous trials now going on every where, there 1s no « need of leaving the subject to such Bene « Accept.