Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections. Part the second: Containing Additional Evidence, with critical and practical Remarks, on the new saline antisyphilitic Remedies; and an Answer to some Objections made against the former Part. : By William Blair, A.M.F.M.S. Surgeon Of The Lock Hospital And Asylum, And Of The Finsbury Dispensary, &c.

  • Blair, William, 1766-1822.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections. Part the second: Containing Additional Evidence, with critical and practical Remarks, on the new saline antisyphilitic Remedies; and an Answer to some Objections made against the former Part. : By William Blair, A.M.F.M.S. Surgeon Of The Lock Hospital And Asylum, And Of The Finsbury Dispensary, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pearing to have been administered, in not a suf- ficient quantity at first. CASE 'II. Henry Aldridge, No. 4, Black Lion ’Yai&i White Chapel, commenced the use of the nitrous acid, on the 2nd of June 1797. He had two chancres upon the prepuce, and a suppurated bubo which was ulcerated at one point, from whence it slowly discharged. The bubo was pouldced, and the chan- cres dressed with simple cerate. He only took fifteen drops of the acid, diluted in a quart of water until the 4th day, when the quantity of acid was doubled: Both the chancres and bubo better.—8th day. The bubo greatly diminished ; the smaller chancre began to heal ; the bubo dressed with unguentum resinae ; fifty drops of the acid given in the day, at which rate it was continued.—11th day. The smaller chancre nearly cicatrized.—12th day. Completely so ; the thickened edge, however, still remaining.—14th day. The bubo healed.—18th day. dhe remaining sore nearly healed; and its chancrous appearance lost; the thickening, which had continued round the edge of the smaller chancre removed. — 21st day. The chancre perfectly healed; some thickening at one part evident;