Lectures on syphilis of the larynx : Lesions of the secondary and intermediate stages / by W. Mac Neill Whistler.

  • William McNeill Whistler
Date:
1879
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Credit: Lectures on syphilis of the larynx : Lesions of the secondary and intermediate stages / by W. Mac Neill Whistler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    persistent affection of tliis nature were removed after two months of sncli a treatment, when other preparations of mercnry had failed to accomplish a cure. In these deeper lesions, as in some of those belonging to the tertiary period, the combined treatment by mercury and iodide of potassium is the quickest and most certain. ]\Iercurial frictions I can recommend to you very highly as havino^ oiven me the best results ; but this method has the disadvantage of being somewhat troublesome, and patients look upon it as an unpleasant remedy. For this reason you can often resort to it only when the eifects of other treatment flag, or to meet emergencies. It has the advantage of not causing gastric irritation or speedy saliva- tion ; and it frecjuently produces all the curative eff'ects of mercury more cjuickly and sureh than when this drug is taken into the stomach. Patients will often keep up the use of these frictions for weeks with no irritation of the mouth, especially if you direct them to use, in the meanwhile, an astringent mouth-wash. A teaspoonful of alum to a tum- blerful of Avater is as good as any; much better than clilorate of potash. In this way the lesions of the larynx will entirely disappear, sometimes after twenty or thirty frictions. The calomel vapour bath of Mr. Lee is a nicer way of applying mercury to the surface of the body than the method by inunction, but its effects are not always so rapidly realised, so far as my experience goes. It is very well adapted to certain cases of chronic syphilitic laryngitis