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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    . I 1 v [ 5 ] * !, an opinion, which, as it oppofed a fa- vorite and fafhionable praCtice, was the lefs likely to be heard with any degree of attention. Every one, who has been at the trouble of looking much into the rub- jeCt, muft know, what an infinite va¬ riety of injections have been recom¬ mended as fpecific cures for the Gonor¬ rhoea; and many of them too, in fiich terms of affurance, that, until repeated i trials had proved the fallacy of them, they might feem to deferve the charac¬ ter they bore. ProphylaCtic remedies alfo, though not nearly fo numerous at the thera¬ peutic, have at different times had their warmeft advocates. If we were really in poffeffion of any fuch remedies as would prevent the difeafe, it would fu- perfede