A practical treatise on urethritis and syphilis, including observations on the power of the menstruous fluid, and of the discharge from leucorrhoea and sores, to produce urethritis ... A new nosological classification of the various venereal eruptions ... and a proposal of a substitute for mercury / by William Henry Judd.

  • Judd, William Henry, 1795-1868.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A practical treatise on urethritis and syphilis, including observations on the power of the menstruous fluid, and of the discharge from leucorrhoea and sores, to produce urethritis ... A new nosological classification of the various venereal eruptions ... and a proposal of a substitute for mercury / by William Henry Judd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    appeared just sufficient to remind the party (had they understood the warning) that a poison seemed to be circulating, and that it did not, like a seed deeply buried in the earth, remain totally latent and inactive in the frame during this extraordinarily long period. And, as if to prove that the symptoms herein detailed were strictly venereal, I] may men- tion that, so often as their possessors had the mercurial action raised in their frame, (if only during a few days,) their symptoms, one and all, imme- diately lessened in severity; and the mitigation, as well as its duration, was exactly proportionate to the length of the mercurial course employed. Vide Case of John L Yr. When the constitution had not been so worn, but that it was able to bear a sufficiently extended course, the mercury, at times, was nearly as useful as it generally is in the less severe forms of this disease. Nevertheless, I do not mean to state that a dis- ease being cured by mercury, is a positive crite- rion that it was syphilitic; for mercury, it must be admitted, relieves many other disorders: I consider it, however, fair presumptive evidence, — especially if taken conjointly with a train of pre- vious marked symptoms, such as sore throat, pains, periostitis, etc. The primary and secondary symptoms of ve-