A letter addressed to Caesar Hawkins : containing new thoughts and observations, in the cure of the venereal disease ... With a few extraordinary cases in that disease / By Charles Hales.

  • Hales, Charles (Surgeon)
Date:
[1770?]
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Credit: A letter addressed to Caesar Hawkins : containing new thoughts and observations, in the cure of the venereal disease ... With a few extraordinary cases in that disease / By Charles Hales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ther increafed ; the appetite did not rrjend; the flrength became more impaired; the ulcer in fcroto did not heal; the abfceffes increafed in number, and were fpon fuc- ceeded by more than an hundred ulcerous eruptions from the hips to the ankles. Con¬ cluding from thefe circumftances, that the ■i V ■ • * v 4 > * - *• texture of the blood was almoll deftroyed, and that the habit of body was reduced to * » - , ■ « that date, which is commonly termed fcor- Imtky I direftly put him under a courfe or my antifcorbutic medicines. In a fort¬ night the good effedfs of them were mani- feft 2 his fpirits, ftrength and appetite re¬ turned, and every fymptom bore the ap¬ pearance of a recovery, but the weather proving unfavourable, he took cold, arid a fever feized him violently, which I fear¬ ed would have deftroyed him ; he hap- pily efcaped, and I repeated my medicines; till he was perfectly recovered, and he is now
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