Observations on the different methods of treating the veneral disease / By William Dease.

  • William Dease
Date:
1779
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Credit: Observations on the different methods of treating the veneral disease / By William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cafes of this kind. A man, who had no other appearance of the venereal difeafe but a fmall wart, which grew out of the mea¬ tus urinarius, yet communicated the infec¬ tion to his wife in a more virulent degree j for, in a few days after their connexion, (he began to complain^ and warts appeared on the labia. They both paffed through the moft regular courfe of mercurial friftions : the hufband, during the time, having rub¬ bed in feven ounces and a half of mercurial ointment, and the wife five; the warts were fumigated with cinnabar, taken down by cauftics, &c. But after five months treat¬ ment, which proved ineffeftual, mercury was obliged to be laid afide, and the warts ftill remain. It is in thofe cafes that I have found the folution,'with the deco6lion of farfaparrilla, or guaiacum, extremely effeftual ; . but I muft own I prefer the latter. In three patients, which lately occurred to me in thofe circumftances, after previoufly pre¬ paring them, I put two of them on the folution, with the decoftion of guaiacum, and
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