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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    CASE VIII. Catharine Cotter, Bermondsey Street, Maze Pond, Borough, had laboured under a venereal af- fection of the throat, for a year; the nature of which not being for a long time understood, it had been treated for several months with bark and wine ; and the consequences were, a considerable destruction of the soft palate, and the loss of distinct articulation. She had more recently undergone a mercurial saliva- tion, by which, the symptoms were removed ; but, in a week after, she relapsed. The 5th of January, 1798, v hen she submitted to be treated by the nitrous acid, tnere was a large ulcerated hole in the velum palati, vnich appeared to be connected with an extensive ulceration posteriorly, from the quantity of mucus discharged; and the stench of her breath was such as indicated the presence of a carious bone. The late liberal employment of mercury, had rendered her extremely weak, emaciated, and irritable.—2nd day. My surprise was much excited, to find no ap- pearance whatever of ulceration in her throat, and the faetor of her breath entirely removed.—7th day. Continued well; her health much improved; imagin- ing there was no further necessity for the acid, she desisted from its use for twenty-two days, during which,