A treatise on syphilis, historical and practical. Vol.1, pt.1, Historical notice / by E. Lancereaux ; translated by G. Whitley.

  • Étienne Lancereaux
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1868
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    sanious ulcers appeared on the places where the cupping-glasses had been applied. It was a singular circumstance that, notwithstanding the great number of cupping-glasses applied, one or two only became the seat of ulcerations. In some, the whole body was afterwards covered with pustules, which rendered the face deformed and horrible. During the progress of the disease, callosities supervened upon the head, which, on bursting, discharged a viscous fluid, like turpentine. Severe pains were then felt in the arms, shoulders, lower extremities, and especially in the tibiæ, where those bones are covered by peri- osteum only, The pains increased at night and diminished in the morning. Next followed prostration of strength, stupidity, and even mental aberration. A fcetid discharge flowed from the nostrils, the appetite was lost, and the patients wished for solitude. Bitters, decoction of guiacum, and turbith mineral were the chief remedies employed ; the ulcers were dressed with mercurial ointment. § 2. Pian.— Yaws.—Frambæsia. ITans Sloane, Voyage aux îles de Madère, la Barbade, Saint-Christophe, la Jamaïque, &c. Londres, 1705, 1725. Bontius, Medicina Judorum, cap xix. Lugduni Batavorum, 1718, 94. Lubat, Nouveau Voyage en Amé- rique, 1722, G vols. in 12°, 10, 358. Winterbottom, Account of the nat. Africans of Sierra Leone, vol. ii. chap, viii., 1742. John Hume, A descrip- tion of the African distemper called the yaws, &c. Med. Essays and Obs. by a Society in Edinburgh, vol. v. post ii. p. 87, 1742. Dazille, Obser- vations sur les maladies des nègres, 2 vols. in 8°, Paris, 1742. Allamand, in Noy. act. natur. curios. Academ. Leopold IV., 88, 1742. Hillary, Observations on the changes of the air and the concomitant epidemical - diseases in the island of Barbadoes. Londres, 1759, in 8°. 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Bemerkungen über Rio Essequebo. Francfort, 1796, 226. Sprengel (K.), Beitrage zür Geschichte der Arzeneikunde, Halle, 1796, Vol. I. fasc. iii, Cet auteur SPP EM NS eRe HU ARR LE De PA AAA à LE SR «ene Aa OTe De Ré IE DNC ENDEMO-EPIDEMICS OF SYPHILIS. 31 s'attache à séparer le yaws du pian. Æunsemuller, Spec. de morbo yaws, &c. Halle, 1797. Camper, Traité pratique des maladies des pays chands, 1802. Savaresy, De la fièvre jaune, &c. Naples, 1809, 92. Cornetro, in Rivist. med. flumin., 1835, No. 3, et 1836, No. 23. Mason, in Edinb. Med. and Surg. Journal, xxxv. 52, 1831. Rankine, ibid., xxviii. 283. Maxwell Observations on yaws, &c. Edinb., 1839. Levacher, Guide Méd. des Antilles, &c., 2° édition. Paris, 1840, 278. J. Thomson, Observat, and Ex- perim. on the nature of the morbid poison called yaws, &c. In Edinb. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1819, t. xv. 321, et 1822, t. xviii. 32. Waitz, On diseases incident to children in hot climates. Bonn, 1843, 282. Fox, in Wilkes’ Narrative of the U.S. Explor. Exped. Philad., 1845, iii. 316. Ferrier, in Répertoire général d’Anatomie et de Physiologie pathologique, iv. 170, 18. Baudoin, Gazette Médicale de Paris. Furnart, Voyage médical dans l’Afrique méridionale. Paris, 1845. Bryson, Report on the climate and diseases of the African station. Londres, 1847, p. 260. Duncan, Travels in Western Africa. Londres, 1847, ii. p.96. Pruner, Die Krankheiten des Orients. Erlangen, 1847, p. 174. Rendu, Etude topographique et médicale sur le Brésil. Paris, 1848. Heymann, Dar- stellung der Krankheiten in den Tropenländern, p.219. Lemprière, in Pinkerton Collect. of Voyag., xv. 689. Lüfler, in Beitrage zur Arznei- wissenschaft, &c., i. Nielen, Verhandel der Weese ch., &c. Haarlem, xix. 135. Oviedo, Hist. gener, y natural de las Indias, lib. ii, caps. 13, 14. Tolède, 1535. Paulet, in Arch. génér. de Médecine, août, 1818, p. 385, Ritchie, in Monthly Journ. of Med. mai, 1852. Guyon, Recueil de mém. de méd. militaire, xxix. 159, et Gaz. médicale de Parts, 446, 1853. Dumontier, in Nederlandsch Lancet, Sept., 1855. Gomez, in Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de Lisbonne, iv.i. Rochouz, in Journal de Physiologie, No. 4. Sigaud, Du climat et des maladies du Brésil, &c., 117-375, et Ann. des malad. de la peau, t. ii. p. 88. Paris, 1846. The names yaws, pian, frambæsia, serve to indicate in different countries a disease, the unity of which, in spite of some opposite opinions, is now generally recognised, and which, like the foregoing epidemic, appears to belong to the domain of syphilis. Pointed out as early as the tenth century by the Arabian physicians, who gave it the name of Sahafati,* this disease, which attacked chiefly the negro race, has only really been made the object of serious study since the observations of Pison + were published. It is met with from the left bank of the Senegal River to Cape Negro, in Senegambia, Congo, Sierra ‘Leone, Nigritia, and most of the colonies to which negroes are carried, especially in the + Théodoric, lib. viii. cap. xviii. Venetiis, 1492, 57. Hirsch, Geogr. Path., p. 784. we : ; + Pison, De Medecina Brasiliensi, lib. ii. cap. xiv., 1648, in fol.
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