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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    carded them as produftive of very alarming local complaints, and deftruftive to the confU- tution in general. - i . The injeffions ufually made ufe of, and the general idea annexed to the? ufe of an injedtion, is, ■ that it’s property muft be aflringent, that iX thUtf airinjeditidns' muft certainly fupprefs the difeharge : ' if injeftidns poflefling an aftringent quality, 'ih any great degree, are made ufe ot, they will infallibly have that effect, and be the caufeof complaints more painful to bear, an;d as difficult to gej rid of, as- the diie^fe they were intended to remove. . . The habitVas thought endangered, from a fuppofition that‘the venereal virus was repclfed into the habit by them*.—It certainly m'ight luf- fer now and then upon fuch occafions, but not always, for a fupprefred gonorrhoea does by no means 'hecefTanly produce a pox and when it does hajjpeh, it is not, as was i'uppofed, from the fuppfeffion of the running, but rather from fome accid'^ntal excoriation in the urethra, which the fharpnefs of the injedion might have occa- Coned; by this means the venereal virus had an opjportunity of getting admittance into the ha- bit} for with refped to it’s aftringent quality, it only afted on the mouths of'the lacunae, k con^