Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, and some other effects of the venereal virus / [Samuel Foart Simmons].

  • Samuel Foart Simmons
Date:
1794
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Credit: Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, and some other effects of the venereal virus / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fpecies of gleet, that feems chiefly to depend on re¬ laxation. It is in general free from infection, and is moft frequent in thofe who have had long and fre¬ quent gonorrhoeas. It is likewife oiten the effect of a debilitated habit, from fevere purging, or a long- continued ufe of mercurials. A difeharge of this kind is more frequent in women than in men; or, at lead, the fluor albus, after a gonorrhoea, will often be miftaken for a gleet. When there is no reafon to fufpedt any venereal taint, aftringent injections will be of the greateit uti¬ lity. It will be neceflary, at the fame time, to at¬ tend to the general health of the patient, and to re¬ commend the bark, chalybeate waters, cold-bathing, and inch other remedies as will tend to ttretigthen the fyttern. When there is no tendency to inflam¬ mation, the balfam of copaiva may be preferibed With .advantage, in large dofes, I have twice feen a complaint of this fort remov¬ ed, by applying a blitter to the perineum, after it had. refitted a variety of remedies. In general, how¬ ever, the other methods I have recommended will be fufficient to cure it: but fometimes it will conti¬ nue for a long time, in fpite of all our endeavours fd check k. , V II B END, .v • , 0 V ■ 4 . '
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