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

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821
Date:
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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    OP GONORRHOEA BY INJECTIONS. 69 cumstances, have gone into the country, and there received a perfect cure, by persevering steadily in the use of that very injection, which, while they continued in town, seemed only to mitigate their disorder. In those obstinate cases of which I have been speaking, a steady perseverance in the injections number IV and V is particularly advisable; as I have more frequently seen such yield to these, than to any of the others. In the use of injections it will likewise some¬ times happen, that a cure will appear to be nearly completed in the usual time; no vestige of the complaint remaining, but a small purulent discharge, which may be squeezed from the orifice of the urethra before passing the urine in a morning, and which will not be removed by continuing the injection ; while to use a stronger will be a still greater evil, for it will assuredly increase the discharge. If in these cases the injection be entirely left olf, the discharge will immediately cease. From this effect it appears, that, owing to an irritable state of the urethra, the discharge abovementioned is excited by the stimulating property of the injection, after the virus is destroyed. In some cases, however, similar to these, it is so extremely difficult to ascertain, whether a discharge of this kind be owing to the mere irritation of the injection, or to a portion of remaining poison, that we
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