A popular treatise on the venereal disease: in which is exhibited all the recent discoveries; and a certain cure. For that terrible malady / by Robert John Thornton.

  • Robert John Thornton
Date:
1815
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Credit: A popular treatise on the venereal disease: in which is exhibited all the recent discoveries; and a certain cure. For that terrible malady / by Robert John Thornton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o buboes have yielded to it without: suppurating 5, phagedenic buboes. have. healed after unsuc- cessful trials with mercury. _ In chancres, how- ever large or sordid, and in excoriations of the scrotum, however fetid and extensive, the cure, by its use, goes on more rapidly than by.a mer- curial process. -Such chancres and excoriations have been dressed only with simple omtment, that the patient might not be mcommoded by, the friction. of thelinen, and that the effect of the medicine might be. better ascertained when there was no local application. ...We have not found, after the chancres. have been cured by: this medicine, that the throat has been affected; a circumstance not. unusual, especially when such ulcers have been dressed with :any mercu=: rial preparation. . ‘The cases sent by Mr. Ham- mick were the worst that were. received <into: the hospital, and that the nitrous acid has suc+ ceeded in fifty cases, or more, is«most certainy
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