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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    The.'nitrous acid was employed in the quantity I have previously described as customary.—5th day. The buboes looked cleaner.—8th day. One of them contracted, the other better; his health already some- what recruited.—13thday. The buboes not amended; wore his bandages too tight, and neglected to dress so often as necessary; his health greatly improved. i 6th day. One bubo partly healed; the other also better. 18th day. One bubo nearly cicatrized; com- plained of pain at the orifice of his urethra, which upon examination appeared much inflamed. 22nd. day. One bubo healed, the other better; felt less pain in the urethra.—26th day. The remaining bubo not better; the orifice of the urethra still much inflamed. 30th day. No alteration; confessed he had been lr- . regular in taking the acid for some days previous; complained of constipation, and of the acid nauseat- ing, especially in the morning: A cathartic given, and the acid suspended for two days.—36th day. The bubo appeared more healthy, and somewhat more con- tracted.—39th day. The bubo better; an ulcer de- tected within the orifice of the urethra.—42nd day. The bubo continued to contract, and heal; the ulcer of the urethra looked clean; and he felt but little pain, when the urine passed over it.—45th day. Better in every