A practical private treatise on the diseases of the genital organs : with illustrative plates, adapted to the use of every individual / by Joseph Ralph.

  • Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
Date:
1848
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    CHAPTER II. On the Remedies in general use for Gonorrhoea;— How far they are to be depended on;—To what parti- cular cases they are suited,—and, How to use them to the best advantage. The remedies for the cure of Gonorrhoea are very few in number and are pretty generally known. Notwith- standing this, however, their real nature is but little un- derstood, so that they are constantly misapplied. They are internal and external. Of the first, the Balsam of Copaiva and the Cubeb are the chief; the external or local remedies consist of lotions, used as Injections. The Internal remedies are vegetable productions, which in their properties very much resemble one another. All of them impart their virtues to the urine, which being retained in the bladder, impress upon it their peculiar ef- fect, and this again is transmitted to the part which is the seat of the disease—the urinary passage.* On the other hand, Injections are generally mineral substances, and * This hos been repeatedly proved. severed near the scrotum ; he conse- Whilst attending the Clink]ue of the quently urinated principally by this renowned Ricord, at the Hopital des artificial opening, and, at both this and V^neriens, of Paris, I had an opportu- the natural opening, the gonorrhojal nity of witnessing a raro and curioue matter escaped. The Balsam of Co- case, very illustrative of this fact. A paiva was ordered him, and in a few man was admitted into one ol the wards days the discharge from the posteiior (Salle -2 I believe) having a severe half of the urethra was entirely check- Gonorrhoea; he had, by an accident, ed, whilst from the anterior half it some years previously, got h.s urethra flowed almost or qutte as freely as ever