The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases : comprising the treatment of constitutional and confirmed syphilis by a safe and successful method : with numerous cases, formulae, and clinical observations / by Langston Parker.

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1871
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    should be regulated, neither too low nor too stimulating. Walking, running, swimming, or riding should be forbidden for fear of producing bubo ; any frequent or strong exercise is likely to do this. The patient should take, internally, the chlo- rate of potass, the potassio-tartrate of iron, or the dilute nitro- muriatic acid. Mercury should only be given in conformity with the directions laid down in the next chapter; if the chancre be much inflamed, or the penis red or swollen, the mixture pre- scribed below1 will be found very serviceable. The best anti- syphilitic is frequently a dressing methodically made, it being in vain that we attend to the constitutional treatment of our patient, at the same time irritating or neglecting the local disease. Syphilitic sores should be daily cleansed or irrigated by means of soft new lint and tepid water, from the discharges which their surfaces secrete; this should be done without creating any irritation or pain, and care should be taken not to disturb any parts undergoing a process of cicatrisation. Syphi- litic ulcers, perhaps, more than any other kind, are liable from slight causes to become irritable, and assume a phagedenic character. The dressings to these ulcers should be of the simplest kind ; mild astringent and anodyne solutions generally succeed better than the various kinds of ointments, particularly those which contain mercury. The testimony of all modern authors is decisive upon this point. Aqueous solutions of opium, weak ones of the nitrate of silver, of the sulphate of copper, sulphate of zinc, sulphate of iron, or the tincture of the sesquichloride of iron, the nitric acid largely diluted, port wine and water, or the black or yellow washes made very weak, are some of the most suitable applications to primary syphilitic sores in their early stages. These generally agree better, are more convenient, and cleaner than ointments; should the latter be preferred, the unguentum zinci, or the cerat. plumbi acetatis, with or without opium, will be found proper. Sometimes cold 1 1^)—Ant. tart., gr. ii—iv ; Magnes. sulpk., 5vj; Liq. opii sed. (Battley), \]\xx—xxx; Tinct. card, co., %sb ; Aquae ad ^viij. 5j 4tis horis.