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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    SUDOltlFlOS, ETC. form of the London Pharmacopoeia, or what I think better, the compound decoction of guaiacum of the Dublin and Edinburgh Colleges, to be taken with the bichloride or biniodide of mer- cury, or the iodide of potassium. The saponaria is a favorite remedy with many Continental surgeons, who seem to place much faith in it as an auxiliary remedy. Mr. Whitehead speaks highly of the Rumex hydrolapathum (water-dock) in the secondary, or rather the tertiary forms of syphilis. Mr. White- head says its virtues as an anti-syphilitic cannot be too highly extolled. The only part recommended for use is the root. Most of these remedies may be employed in form of decoction, in the proportions of about an ounce to a pint. All these decoctions should be prepared fresh every two or three days. In Germany especially, an empirical treatment by the decoc- tion of Zittman is said to be very frequently successful; it is associated with aperients, rest in bed, and a most rigid diet. It is, as Mr. E. Wilson truly says, a compound of sweating, starving, and purging. I have seen several German patients who have been treated by this plan, and their diseases not cured. It reduces the patients to an extreme degree of weakness, and requires confinement to bed during the course. zittman's decoction. ^ Rad. sarsaparillse, §xij; Aqua3, lb xxiv. Boil for two hours, and add— Aluminis su]ph. 3jss; Hydrarg. chlorid., 3S8; Antimonii oxysiUphuret., 5j Boil down to two thirds, and add— Fol. senna), §iij; Rad. glycirrhiza3, 33 ss ; Sem. anisi, §ss. Infuse for an hour, and strain. This is termed the stronger decoction. The weaker one is to be prepared by taking the residue which remains after straining the stronger, and adding 51 Rad. sarsaparillse, §ij ; Aquse fontana), tb xxiv. Boil for two hours, and add— Corticis canella3, Corticis limonum, Semmi cardarnomi, aa, 5hj. Infuse for an hour, and strain. 25