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Credit: A treatise on gonorrhoea and syphilis / by Silas Durkee. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![copaiba, when employed as an injection, has no power to arrest gonorrhoeal secretion, nor to allay the irritable and inflamed condition of the urethra. The theory is, that the remedy requires to undergo a certain modification, which can only be effected by its transit through the kidneys, before it can exert any salutary effect on the urethral disease. What this transformation or change is, has never been demonstrated. Yery recently, statements have been made by M. Dallas of Odessa, and by Dr. Dick of London, to the effect that they have employed the balsam as an injection in gonorrhoea with complete success. The former surgeon reports sixteen cases treated thus, without any auxiliary measures. The latter gentleman states, that for the last two years he has employed the copaiba as an injection with excellent benefit. He has also tried the oil of copaiba, which, he says, answers extremely well. For the last mentioned substance the following is his formula: — B. Olei Copaibse, 3 i- Pulveris Acacise, 3\j- Aquae Fontanse, 3 vi. M. In subacute gonorrhoea and in gleet, this injection may be used twice a day for a few days ; afterwards more fre- quently. Successful results have been reported of the balsam when used as an enema for patients who could not tolerate it on the stomach. I have never made trial of it in this manner; but Velpeau speaks favorably of it when thus administered. The following prescription can be employed : — Bs. Copaibse, 3 ;; Mucilagims Acacise, ? iss_ Tincturse Opii, 3 SSg ]\j For an enema, which may be repeated two or three times in the twenty-four hours. Cubebs. — The reputation of this therapeutic agent, in exert- ing an immediate and favorable specific action upon the lining membrane of the urethra in all stages of blennorrhagia, is fully established; and by many surgeons it is more frequently pre- scribed for its cure than any other article in the materia med-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21117019_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
