The homoeopathic treatment of syphilis, gonorrhoea, spermatorrhoea, and urinary diseases / compiled by J. Ph. Berjeau.
- Jean-Philibert Berjeau
- Date:
- [1869], ©1869
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Credit: The homoeopathic treatment of syphilis, gonorrhoea, spermatorrhoea, and urinary diseases / compiled by J. Ph. Berjeau. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![may be gathered from the article on Characteristic Effects. HERPES PRytPUTIALIS; Eczema Praeputialis.— Til is troublesome vesicular eruption, sometimes mistaken for incipient chancre, may affect both sexes, either with or without a syphilitic taint. In the male, the vesicles, of the size of a pin's head when fully developed, are seated on the prepuce and glans; in the female, on the labia majora and minora. The patients are not aware of the disease until their attention is directed to it by the itch- ing of the red and swollen parts. The vesicles are generally clustered together, and sometimes coalesce. Treatment. — The most useful remedies are Acid, phos., Petroleum, Thuja, and Veratrum; \_Merc. corr.'] Vide Characteristic Effects. PHIMOSIS. —This is caused by the infiltration of fluid into the cellular tissue of the prepuce, forming a large, long, dark, reddish-brown, bulbous swelling at the extremity of the penis, its borders being enlarged, cracked, and so narrow that but a small portion of the secreted pus can make its escape, and rendering the retraction of the prepuce behind the glans impossible, the remainder collecting underneath, forming a fluctuat- ing swelling. Persons with a long and narrow prepuce are the most subject to it, and balanorrhoea is always present. Treatment. — If the remedies are selected with care, the disease is generally easily subdued, and it is only in very severe cases, and when gangrene threatens, that the knife becomes necessary. Should the apparently appropriate remedies be of no avail, slight incisions in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21041477_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
