On a new way of treating gonorrhoea / by John L. Milton.

  • Milton, J. L. (John Laws), 1820-1898
Date:
1852
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Credit: On a new way of treating gonorrhoea / by John L. Milton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ^raltimg. 1. Remedies recommended ; objections to them. 2. Animal chemistry; light it throws on the subject. 3. Pro- bable EXPLANATION AND TREATMENT. ]. Remedies recommended.—Scalding may be looked upon as one of the most promii^ent and painful symptoms in this com- plaint ; it is constantly present in every severe case, and has even been considered by some authors as the distinguishing mark be- tween a pure and a spurious gonorrhoea. Although this is un- doubtedly not the fact, yet it may be considered a good criterion of the progress of the case ; for when the scalding is checked the running may generally soon be cured ; and when it continues, and the running is stopped, we do not know how soon the latter may make its appearance again. It is a symptom to which, when present, the patient almost always directs the surgeon’s attention, and one which it is almost impossible to subdue, or even materially alleviate, without removing the diseased state of the passages. When severe, and particularly if the patient be labouring under gonorrhoea for the first time, it is productive of great suffering, the urine feeling like molten le-d or boiling oil, and in its passage over the mucous membrane, inducing violent spasm in the muscular tissue by which it is embraced. For these reasons I have judged it, along with chordee, worthy of careful investigation, and, with a view of obtaining some specific direc- tions as to the best mode of relieving it, have carefully searched all the works from which I was likely to derive the desired in-