An essay on the gonorrhoea : with some observations on the use of opium, in the cure of that disease / by William Thomas.

  • Thomas, William.
Date:
1780
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Credit: An essay on the gonorrhoea : with some observations on the use of opium, in the cure of that disease / by William Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( >1 ) ing fatisfaftion, both to patient and furgeon, that the habit wib always be fecured By‘it, in future. J . ■ ^ Since then the moft prudent method of ciiting a gonorrh'sea is, by a careful and judicious life of mercury, both with refpedl to the local com- plaint, as well as for the future fafery of the 'habit: it is necclTarv to examine which is the ¥ beft method of introducing that medicine; a va- Hecy of ways have been propofed, but I Ihall confine my pbfervations to thofe moft frequently pradiced in curing the gonorrhoea, namely that ‘of giving calomel by the mouth, joined with pther cooling medicines f ?nd the ufe of calomel by ifijsdron. * - r - • • ' The firft ftep thought abfoluteiy neceflary to- wards the cure of a gonorrhoea is, to fubduc what are Called the inhammatory fymptOms of it; and indeed with many this is almoft ‘the only objed in view for fome time ; to effed it tlie body is kept in a conftant ftate of purging. By lenitive eleduary, jalap, &c.‘ thefc are afiifted by cream of tartar, or nitre, and fdmetrmes both; calomel is given very fparingly ; for the •eradicating the venereal virus, feems to be a ‘fecondary confideration, that may be fafely o- rnitted unti^ thefe fymptoms arc in fome meafurc .gone off.