The most cogent reasons why astringent injections, caustic bougies, and violent salivations, should be banished for ever from practice: with the mildest methods of safely treating every species of venereal infection, strictures of the urethra etc., and correcting mischiefs arising from caustic bougies / By William Rowley.
- William Rowley
- Date:
- 1800
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The most cogent reasons why astringent injections, caustic bougies, and violent salivations, should be banished for ever from practice: with the mildest methods of safely treating every species of venereal infection, strictures of the urethra etc., and correcting mischiefs arising from caustic bougies / By William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![( *6$ ) inflammation, cold fhiVerings, abfcefs, callofities, incurable ulcers, mortification, and an agonizing death ! The aftringent injectors inconliderately pave the way and pre- pare inhuman work for the cauflicators ; but it is remarkable, the cauflicators declare they never ufe injections, it is fufficient for them to remove the effects. $>uid cji hoc ? tshiare hcec fubita nw- tatlo ? They embark in the fame bottom, and mull fink or fwim together. The cauflicators, not perhaps knowing, or forgetting that admirable rule in fkilful forgery, Cuncta prius ten- tanda, fly to their torturing remedy with eager precipitation, and ftride in violent hafte to burn a temporary paflage through the urethra*; without trying thofe lenient methods that have lucceeded with D.aran, Sharp, and many of the moft excel- lent furgeons. Were thcfe great and experienced men living, they would be filled with horror; their fouls would freeze at the barbarity of the times, and rafhnefs of the prefent coarfe and random applications. By the unfeeling violence of the cauflica- tors, they have produced, in fome inftances, the frightful opera- tion of laying open, or cutting away, the corpus spongiosum penis. The penis itfelf, in other inftances, has been cut off, amputated || ! The cauflicators, therefore, inftead of fecurely Iheltering themfelves and defending their pradtice on the plaufible plea of other operations being dangerous, and laying ftrefs on that circumftance as a vindication of their ralhnefs, and the fatality of the favourite pradlice, only expofe the nakednefs of the land in the fair fields of reafon. Such fophifters appear to have a very high notion of their own fublime faculties, and a very con- temptuous opinion of the mental powers of others; to fuppofe * It lias proved in many inftances temporary, to my own knowledge, and iliat of many other practitioners. If the ulcer produced by the cauftic be curable, a contracted cicatrix remains, and in time the original fymptoms of oblliuCtion reappear. |] Can any thing be more dreadful to mankind than the lofs of thofe important parts, on which population depends? Women fcarcely ever know the accurfed fymptoms of urethral ftriCtures. They are never or rarely cured by any aftringent injected through the meatus urinarius. The lower clafs until lately efcaped; gentlemen of rank and fortune are moft the victims to the mal-praCtices. A military furgeon of great experience ex- claimed the other day, in confirmation of my obfervations, “ Moft of the military have ruined urethras!’’ fuch](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22036015_0181.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
