A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints, scurvy, leprosy, & scrofula : also on a certain disease, seminal weakness ... to which is added an address ... on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818.
Date:
[1804?]
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Credit: A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints, scurvy, leprosy, & scrofula : also on a certain disease, seminal weakness ... to which is added an address ... on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECOND STAGE OF THE VENEREAL DISEASE. 7 he Anti-Imfetigines is certainly as power, ul, pleasant, safe, and efficacious a medicine as can possibly be devised, for every degree of venereal in- fection ; and ought certainly to be persevered in, until there is every reason to believe that the taint is subdued. . onty secret in the management of this medi- cine is, to give it in such a manner that it may act beyond the prima viae, and not run off by stool; there is then no desirable effect which may not be ex- pected from it. One motion in the twenty-four hours is natural; one may be produced by the Anti-Impeti- gmes; but if the patient should have more than two in a day, let the dose be diminished to 20, 1 r, or 10 drops. 3 A running continuing beyond four weeks, swell- ings of the foreskin, swelled testicles and warts, for the most part indicate that the infection has entered the constitution. Buboes, sores on any part of the body, scabs or spots on the skin, pains and swellings of the bones, head-achs, deafness and sore eyes, when supposed to proceed from a venereal cause, are universally allowed to be certain signs that the constitution is infected. A running, which has continued (under what-