On the rational employment of mercury in the treatment of syphilis / by Colomiati Meredyth.

  • Meredyth, Colomiati.
Date:
1866
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    EATIONAL EMPLOYMENT OF MERCURY IN THE TREATMENT OF SYPHILIS. When we contemplate the phenomena of syphilis, the varied aspects of its initiatory lesions, the wide range of its multifarious symptoms, their fre- quently recurring and perplexing relapses, we shaU cease to wonder that the nature of the disease should be involved in great obscurity. In the present iastance, I purpose to confine my remarks to the dijficulties with which the treatment of venereal diseases is so often embarrassed, and, in order to avoid confusion, I wish it to be understood that I shall employ the term syphilis, to the general or constitutional disease hereditarily acquired, or originating in an ulcer of the genital organs, arising from contagion, and the term venereal to all other afiections, resulting from local contagion to the same parts ; for, notwithstanding that these affections and sjrphilis have some analogical symptoms, yet being of different natures, they require very different modes of treatment. Although the doctrine of the specific duality of B