An essay on the venereal disease and its treatment : illustrated by numerous cases : intended to ascertain the effect of nitrous acid and other analogous remedies, lately proposed as substitutes for mercury / by William Blair.
- Blair, William, 1766-1822.
- Date:
- 1808
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on the venereal disease and its treatment : illustrated by numerous cases : intended to ascertain the effect of nitrous acid and other analogous remedies, lately proposed as substitutes for mercury / by William Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1Q3 CHAP. 5.] An Abstract of Cases, <&c. Essay; so that the reader will now possess a sum- mary of the whole evidence adduced in its support. Case I. The first case I find of secondary symptoms, is recorded at page 5th. Dr. Helen us Scott (more commonly called Mr.) writes November 22, 1793, that he had then nearly healed an extensive ulceration of the throat and velum paluti, by administering the acid for a month to an East Indian. He had never taken mercury, and remained well September 1st, 1799- Case II. p. 6. A man had nearly lost the use of his hands, arms, and legs, by nocturnal pains ; and had a copper-coloured eruption on many parts of his skin. Dr. Scott relieved him in a fortnight, by ex- hibiting the acid ; and greatly recovered him in one month. After some weeks further use of the acid, he cured the patient, who remained free from sy- philitic affection Sept, l, 1799- Case III. p. 7- A man in Bombay with old chan- cres, pains in his bones, stiff joints, copper-coloured spots, and thickened cuticle, was cured in six weeks by taking the acid under Dr. Scott’s direction. He continued it for two months in all, and lias been well ever since. He never took a grain of mercury, which is a remedy the natives of India abhor. Case IV. p. 8. A patient with nocturnal pains, swelled ancle, pbymosis and discharge, afterwards followed by redrcoloured spots, was apparently cured by the acid, and the local application of blue vitriol' to the prepuce. He was still taking the acid Nov. 12, 1794. Case V. p. 9— l J. After a chancre bad healed by the use of mercury, the patient suffered grievously from nocturnal pains; another course of mercury afforded relief, but a relapse occurred in fifteen days after it was discontinued. He was confined with the pain six months in bed, so that he could not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28753951_0197.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
