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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    ( 4‘ ) the running which remains is quite inoffenfivc, and incapable .of communicating the infediortj that the running is the confequence of one or other of the caufes juft mentioned—it is no longer from the irritation of the venereal virus* but from a relaxation of the lacunas ,;and the cure rmuft be Gompleated, by reftoring the parts to .their original ftrength, when the difeharge will never fail to ceafe. •If in a:few days, therefore, after the ceftation -of the inflammatory fymptoms, nature has been too much debilitatedtto recover ; the oily relax- .ing injc<ftion.lhould Jie changed for one that is imildly aftringent, which had much better be .guarded iby. a fmall.quantity of opium: an in- jedion mildly aftringent will be capable of ading .very powerfully j for the urethra being at this time very, tender and irritable, it is too apt ever? .now, to occafion a return of the inflammation, which Icldom fails to he accompanied with an ‘hernia humoralis. There Yer from the long continued irritation in the urethra, as well as from the debilitated Itate he was in, the lacunas liill continued to emit a greater fecretion than ufual, which was ftill difcolourcd a little, but quite thiclp. I defired him to take the bark frequently, and to ftrengthen his habit by a more generous diet, fuch as he had formerly accuftomed himfelf to. He feemed very anxious to know my opinion of the running, as he had within a day or two had a connexion with a woman, who he was fearful would fuffer ; I af- iured him that 1 did not think the difeharge infectious. Not long after he had a fccond connexion with another woman j neither of horn had the Icall complaint in confequence.