A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea, and on the superior efficacy of the cure by injection / By Peter Clare.

  • Peter Clare
Date:
1789
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Credit: A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea, and on the superior efficacy of the cure by injection / By Peter Clare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 22 VITRIOLIC INJECTIONS. matory, and if living low is not indifpen^ fible, in every complaint of this kind ? It may be faid in reply* that this is a local inflammation, which yields at once to a cooling detergent liquid, applied to the:, part; and whilft it is iuch, neither] diet nor internal medicines are required: to remove it. >v •- H v ^ > 'v ■ l i. With regard to the particular compofi- tion to be employed, I mull: obferve, that in general 1 have met with the greateft fuccefs in the cure of this complaint from, vitriolic injections, or thofe prepared from a pure fait of zinc. Thefe are prefera¬ ble to any in which mercurial powders are fufpended, fince there is apt to be a confiderable fediment depofited, and this being conveyed into the urethra, is fome- times found to excite irritation and pain in a confiderable degree. Injections of all kinds (hould be ap¬ plied cold, rather than warm, for cold braces.