Syphilis / by V. Cornil ; translated, with notes and additions, by J. Henry C. Simes and J. William White.
- Victor André Cornil
- Date:
- 1882
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Credit: Syphilis / by V. Cornil ; translated, with notes and additions, by J. Henry C. Simes and J. William White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tiary stage, we employ the iodide of potassium with it. The most satisfactory preparation is the protiodide, in the dose of from |- to 1 grain, and Van Swieten's solution in the dose of from one to two tea- spoonfuls daily. Against stubborn syphilides we employ frictions of the Neapolitan ointment^ in the dose of from 3j to 5iiss daily. The absorption of this is very rapid, especially when it is rubbed on the skin in regions where it is the thinnest, or where the temperature is the greatest, such as the axilla, the groin, and the popliteal space. Every second day this inunction is employed, alternating with a simple or sulphur bath. Patients should then be well watched, for stomatitis is apt to make its appearance very rapidly in some cases. We possess in the baths of the bichloride of mercury and in fumi- gations very active means of treatment. Frictions and baths of the bichloride are very useful when the stomach is unable to bear mercury. They can be employed in the cases of young children suffering from he- reditary syphilis, especially when the digestive functions are impaired. In the cases of children at the Saint Therese—children suffering with acquired or hereditary syphilis, whose ages varied from 2 to 15 years— we employed most frequently Van Swieten's solution in milk in a dose proportioned to the age of the little girls. We have very frequently in our service pregnant women who are syphilitic. When syphilis has shown itself a little before concep- tion, or at the same time, or within the first two or three months of pregnancy, these women generally abort if the disease be pei-mitted to take its natural course ; on the other hand, if mercury be used methodically, in moderate doses, but continued for some time, the patients usually carry their children to the end of their term, and the child is born well and free from syphilis. We have treated in the St. Clement ward, during the greater part of their pregnancy, syphilitic women who have been confined, and whose children, nursed by them, are healthy. Within the past twenty years, in addition to the remedies al- ready mentioned, hypodermic injection has been employed. Hebra, Hunter, Scarenzio, Lewin, Aime Martin, Liegeois, Dron, and Diday have used it with success. Of all the different methods of giving mercury this is assuredly the one by which a certain determined dose can most readily be made to enter the system, and which causes the most immediate modifications in the syphilides. This method is [' Uiig. hydrarg. U. S. P.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2151852x_0440.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
