A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea, recommending the use of injection ... With a brief account of the remedies which have been used in the lues venerea ... and a critical enquiry into the present modes of administering mercury ... / [Peter Clare].

  • Peter Clare
Date:
1784
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea, recommending the use of injection ... With a brief account of the remedies which have been used in the lues venerea ... and a critical enquiry into the present modes of administering mercury ... / [Peter Clare]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (>, 2507 Je if a patient, then, muft either rub fifteen grains of common mercurial Ointment, or one erain of calomel, and is allowed, after try ing both ways, to choofe for himfelf, there will be little doubt with refpeé to his choice. Your method alfo recommends itfelf, as a neater and more cOnyenient one, than the rub- bing mercurial ointment. The friGion of mer- ane ointment on the thighs or arms, is, to many people, one of the moft difagreeable things in the world. Its leaden ace con- tiated with the fkin, makes it look dirty. It] has a peculiarly offenfive fmell, independent of oe of the turpentine, or balfam of fulphur; which may have beer employed in extinguifhe ing the a juickfilyer. From the difficulty attend- ing the rubbing, the fkin is generally left a iiitle {meared et it, after the proceis is over ; aS it1S oily, it does not eva aporate, or dry, rea- dily; and it will eafily flick to w Tee it touches. Patients are obliced to fleep in flan- nel drawers, to Poe the ointment from getting through and daubing the bed-clothes. They mutt is fre quently cent their drawers ; conftantly wathing the kin: or, ¢§ wafhing off the ointment: would, retard the-.cure, they muft remain dirty for D fix