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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    [ ?» ] Where the chancres are in a healing con- dition on the glans or prepuce, the prepuce mould be moved on the glans as much as it will allow, once or twice a day, to prevent adhefions. When the parts have fuppurated, the pus may be let out with an inftrument, or by the lapis fepticus applied on the part where the pus is collected. A mortification of the prepuce is fometimes the confequence of violent inflammation j but fuch cafes are generally of the eryfipelas -, and not of the phlegmonous or true fuppurative kind. When excrefcencies under the prepuce are numerous or large, it commonly becomes neceffary to divide the prepuce with the knife, in order to have room to apply fuitable dref- fings. In thofe cafes where violent inflammation has invaded the feat of the chancre, producing phymofis, and often fo as to threaten mor- tification, a queftion naturally arifes, what is to be done ? Is mercury to be given freely, to get rid of the firft caufe, or does that medicine increafe the effect, while it deftroys the caufe ? Nothing but