Volume 1

Reports principally concerning the effects of the nitrous acid in the venereal disease / by the surgeons of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, and by other practitioners. Published by Thomas Beddoes, M. D.

  • Thomas Beddoes
Date:
1797
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Credit: Reports principally concerning the effects of the nitrous acid in the venereal disease / by the surgeons of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, and by other practitioners. Published by Thomas Beddoes, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 wards of three years. Upon examination, two very {mall orifices were difcernable on the nates, very near the perineum, but too fimall to admit acommon fized probe. A whitifh opake fluid was difcharged from them, and the parts fur- rounding feemed hard and callous, As, from his own confeffion, there was fome reafon to fufpe& a fyphilitic affeCtion, as he had no cough, and was in every refpect languid and de- bilitated, I wifhed to make trial of the ztric acid, with an intention of conquering the fyphilitic affection, as well as invigorating the fyftem. He began with 3 j. mixed in a quart of water, the whole of which was directed to be taken within the courfe of twenty-four hours, and the filtulous orifices were dreffed with mercurial ointment. In the courfe of a week he found himfelf much better, his appetite increafed, and to ufe his own expreffion, ‘* he thought he felt ftouter.” The quantity was now increafed to 3 ifs. and at the end of another week to 31]. to orifices ftill continuing to fecrete a fmall quan-
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