Observations on morbid poisons, phagedaena, and cancer : containing a comparative view of the theories of Dr. Swediaur, John Hunter, Messrs. Foot, Moore and Bell, on the laws of the venereal virus. And also some preliminary remarks on the language and mode of reasoning adopted by medical writers / By Joseph Adams.
- Joseph Adams
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![dam nigrities qu<e non fentitur fed ferpit. It was indeed feated on the prepuce, and his directions are applicable to the glans, becaufe his principal object in them is the prefervation of the urethra. When phagedaena fpreads in this manner, it is impoffible to fay how far the difeafe may have extended be- fore the lofs of fubftance {hows itfelf. The pro- priety of the direction, therefore, to cut beyond the difeafed part [pr■addendum'] in this inftance, and to cauterize in the other, is eafily comprehended. That this cafe was the effect of a morbid poi- fon introduced from the broken fkin at the lower part of the prepuce, is mo ft probable ; and that it was not venerea], is to me equally fo. Is it con- fident with what we know of the latter, that an ulcer fliould increafe while mercury is mowing its effects on the constitution ? Even if mercury were exhibited in too great profufion, there fliould Jiave been a period during its ufe when the ulcer mould have (bowed a healing difpqfition ,• but the contrary was invariably the. dale till the remedy was laid afide, and indeed long after the conftitu- tion had recovered from all the common effects of it. Was the phagedena, then, the effect of mer- cury ?_ This is more probable, efpecially when we recollect, that a cauftic having been very early ap- plied to the part, the action from the virus might have been deftroycd, and that of mercury have been](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2151060x_0094.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
