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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    C ' 53 ^ ) # • conRringed them, and prevented them from pouring out their contents, which they are fti- mulated to do in a much greater proportion than ufual; and tho’ the difeharge from the lacunte is greater than ufual in a gonorrhoea, yet it is not till after it has efcaped thefe veffcls, and is lodged in the urethra, that it touches an4 becomes contaminated by the venereal viru?. Injedions become improper from, and offend only in their quality j and tho’ rejedled by many praditioners as unneceflary, and by others as hazardous, yet, if properly fuited to the ftatc and ffage of the gonorrhoea, they may be, npt only ufed with’ the greateft fafety, but the cure will always be expedited by them. , j In forming the compofition of the injedion,’ we fliould take nature for ou,r guide, and imitate her as much as pofiible.—The defign of an in- jeclion in the firft ftage of a gonorrhoea, fhould be to countcrad the irritation, to lubricate the inflammatory furface of the urethra, and to de- fend it as much as pofTible from the venereal virus 1 and to deftroy that flimulus, opium, gum ~ arabic, and argentum vivum property dilTolved, ,and mixed according to art in fome oleaginous fluid, will anfwcr thefe feveral purpofes j to thefe I have frequently added, where the difpo- F ficion