Practical observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea virulenta in men / [Thomas Whately].

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821
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1817
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Credit: Practical observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea virulenta in men / [Thomas Whately]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ prepared according to Mr. Scheele’s process* * * §, suspended in a small quantity of simple watefc, and injected five or six times a day, p^efer- able to any other remedy f.” And in another place he says, fC gleets are often infectious J.” Even Mr. Bell, who attributes gonorrhoeas, and of course gleets, to a poison altogether different from the venereal one, acknowledges the power of mercurials in their cure. He says, one of the best injections for gleets is a solu- “ tion of muriated quicksilverThe same author afterwards observes, that strong mer- f‘ curia] ointment, proves often as effectual when “ rubbed on bougies, as any other remedy em- ployed for gleets || Van Swieten relates the case of a man, who “ had laboured four years under the most sc malignant gonorrhoea H,” which of course in the latter period of it would, by many practiti¬ oners, be called a gleet. Mr. Hunter is also of opinion, that the virus of gonorrhoeas, when they terminate in gleets, * Hyd rargyrus muriatus mitus. Ph. Loud, t Dr. Swediaur’s Treatise on the Venereal Disease, p. 58. X Ibid. p. 63. § Treatise on the Gonorrhoea, Vol. I, p. 193. || Ibid. p. 198. 5T Van Swieten’s Commentaries, by Elliot, Vol. XVII, p. 190.
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