The effects of injection into the urethra, and the use and abuse of those remedies in the cure and prevention of the virulent gonorrhoea, briefly considered : With occasional remarks on the nature of that disorder, in answer to some modern doctrines / By Thomas Bayford.

  • Bayford, Thomas.
Date:
1773
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Credit: The effects of injection into the urethra, and the use and abuse of those remedies in the cure and prevention of the virulent gonorrhoea, briefly considered : With occasional remarks on the nature of that disorder, in answer to some modern doctrines / By Thomas Bayford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ” ] There is no one difeafe, I believe, which has employed fo great a num¬ ber of pens, as the venereal. Va¬ rious modes of cure have been infti- tuted by various authors, according to the particular ideas they have formed of the difeafe ; of the nature and qua¬ lities of the venereal poifon.—When the power of mercury had been fuf- ficiently proved in the cure of the Lues venerea, it was not unnatural at fir ft to imagine, that its falutary effedls might be equally great in that of the Gonorrhoea : how long fuch pradtice has been continued, and with what fuccefs, it is unneceflary for me to fay. Sydenham, and, fince his time, many others have regarded the running of the Gonorrhoea as a critical di(charge. Boerhaave alfo thought his patients free C 2 from