A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie.

  • John Hunter
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    [ *7 ] When the ulcer is large, it is out of the power of the cauftic -, but if the fituation will allow, the difeafed parts may be cut out, or incifions may be made round it into the cel- lular membrane with good effect. Where this method cannot be employed with proprie- ty, becaufe of the inflamed or painful ftate of the chancre, it fhould be frequently fomented with warm water or other emollients, and drelTed with the mild blue mercurial ointment, made of argentum vivum and hogs lard in equal parts; or if not inflamed, with equal parts of crude mercury and venice turpentine : but in moft cafes filling the ulcer every day or two with red precipitate and covering with the lead water poultice, or Goulard's cerate, is the moft effectual, though not the leaft painful, of any other application. If the chancre be deftroyed early, no other fymptoms will follow -, but if matter has been abforbed, its effects will appear in other parts in form of lues, as will be more fully ex- plained when on that part of the fubject. When a chancre fixes on the internal fur- face of the prepuce, one of two very trouble- D 2 fome