An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / [Charles Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, Charles, 1750-1815
Date:
1783
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Credit: An essay, on the symptoms and cure of the virulent gonorrhoea, in females / [Charles Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or ulcerated, as well as to prevent irri¬ tation, or aflift in removing it when prefent. Emollient, or fedative injec¬ tions, ought therefore to be thrown up warm, twice or thrice a day, fo as to cleanfe out the whole vaginal canal, and clear away the virulent fanies that is continually fecreted by the infected glandules. If, by a ftriCt obfervance of what has been juft recommended, due attention be paid to cleanlinefs only, the virus will feldom or ever acquire that high degree of acrimony neceffary to produce ulceration; confequently, the danger of the poifon being ab- forbed, and received into the mafs of circulating humours, will be effectually removed, and that by the moft Ample remedies. Cooling purges are proper from the beginning, and ought to be repeated at due intervals during the cure, but more frequently in the inflammatory ftate of the \