Salivation exploded, or, A practical essay on the venereal disease ... To which is subjoined, a dissertation on gleets and weaknesses ... / By Charles Swift.

  • Swift, Charles
Date:
1780
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Credit: Salivation exploded, or, A practical essay on the venereal disease ... To which is subjoined, a dissertation on gleets and weaknesses ... / By Charles Swift. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 8* ] immediately upon the old ulcer; whofe cal¬ lous edges may thus be removed more fpeedily perhaps than by any other means. i A very ftriking inftance of this kind will be found in the fubfequent cafe: CASE XXIX. Four years fince, a linen-draper in the city, after having ineffectually employed fe- veral gentlemen of the faculty for the re¬ moval of a venereal gleet which had troubled ♦ him eight years, made application to me for the fame purpofe. I examined the urethra with a bougie, and found very little obftruc- tion therein; I then enquired into the dif¬ ferent methods of cure that had been adopted by his other furgeons, to which he replied, that after going through feveral mercurial courfes, taking 4 great quantity of balfamics, and ufing a variety of aflringents internally as well as topically, bougies were at laft recom¬ mended ; and notwithilanding the uninter¬ rupted application of them for fome months, and the ftrideft regimen at the fame time beinar