An essay on gleets ; wherein the defects of the actual method of treating those complaints of the urethra are pointed out, and an effectual way of curing them indicated / [Jean Paul Marat].

  • Jean-Paul Marat
Date:
[1775]
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Credit: An essay on gleets ; wherein the defects of the actual method of treating those complaints of the urethra are pointed out, and an effectual way of curing them indicated / [Jean Paul Marat]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r -4 ■’] hirft with great amduity. Various were the remedies employed to* fubdue the running. Among them the fuppuration was again tried,: and again did the running flop by the ufe of diffieative bougies. When ftopt the patient was affured of his being cured, and tO: remove every doubt about it, was advifed to drink punch pretty freely. So he did ; but no fooner was the tryal madej than the running returned with greater violence. Vexed at lb many difap-. pointments, the patient was determined to relign his fate to Nature- alone, and for a while did not alter his relolution, till hearing (from a friend) of fome ftriking cures of fim-ilar complaints I had^ performed, that he might not have any reproach: to make to hirn- fclf, he refolved to venture a laft experiment.. When he applied * to me, his running was juff coming upon< him ; it was of a deep green, both fcalding and abundant. The eredion of the penis was accompanied with excruciating pains, and-- the mufcular tunic of the urethra fo crifpated, that the extremity of the glands was retra^ded inwards* The urine fpouted but in a^ fmall ftream, flbwly and with difficulty.- Some time be experienced a fort of retention, and never could ejed it without paffing a bougie in. the neck of the bladder once a day. ’ My firlicare was to refax tliie contraded parts ; t^hicH I did by. mucilaginous injedions. In a week’s time no pain was felt in eredions; the fummit of the glands again became proeminous, and- the fcalding was conhderably abated.. ' Sufpeding the whole mafs of the lymph to be infeded, as the _paticnt vvas rather of a plethoric complexion, J made him for a . long while go through a courfe of fudorific draughts. « . • . .w ■ ' 7 ' ' , , - - ' ' ' , ..... ♦In ^ 'Wheii.