Observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea.

  • Samuel Foart Simmons
Date:
1780
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Credit: Observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ 5° ] and difpofed to heal, we, by fuch a pro- cefs, dejlroy the venereal virus, inftead of repelling it, and in this way, may, in a few days, remove an evil, which would otherwife, perhaps, be the work of feve- ral weeks, / When this method is adopted, care muft be taken that the cauftic be .of fuf- ficient activity to produce a Hough ; for Otherwife it will only flimulate, and of courfe ferve to throw the virus into the habit. At any rate, however, it will be prudent to guard againft the poffibility of the virus infedting the habit; and, in every cafe where the chancre is ill condi- tioned and extenfive, it will be right to ufe only the mildeft applications, fuch as dry lint, frequent fomentations of warm milk and water, &c, and to truft the cure to mercurials given internally ; be- caufe, in fuch a Hate, the inflammation excited
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