An essay on venereal diseases : and the uses and abuses of mercury in their treatment : illustrated by drawings of the different forms of venereal eruptions / by Richard Carmichael.

  • Richard Carmichael
Date:
1825
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Credit: An essay on venereal diseases : and the uses and abuses of mercury in their treatment : illustrated by drawings of the different forms of venereal eruptions / by Richard Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Doctor Bateman has collected from the writings of Doctor Winterbottom, and other medical men, well acquainted with the disease in the West Indies. Upon reading them, I was for- cibly struck with the strong coincidence which exists between that disease, and the constitutional form of some of those complaints which have been hitherto confounded with syphilis. This coincidence is not only striking, with regard ta their form, the eruptions being alike composed of papulge and pustules, and attended with pains in the joints ; but also, in the circumstance that, like the exanthemata, they will run their course, and not relinquish the constitution till they have completed their various stages. This is a re- markable fact, and will be elucidated in the course of this work, by the statement of a great variety of cases. We shall find that the exhibi- tion of mercury, in those resembling diseases, produces the same effects as when prescribed for the yaws, viz. it may suspend the disease, and clear the skin of the eruption, but will leave the patient still impregnated with the virus, which evinces its presence as soon as the mercurial irritation has subsided, by a re-appearance of the eruption, or affections of the periosteum bones, and other deep-seated parts. It is supposed by many that sivvens, a disease endemic in Scotland, is a peculiar modification of syphilis ; but Doctor Adams, who took parti- cular pains to investigate the nature of this dis-
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