Observations on syphilis, principally with reference to the use of mercury in that disease / by John Bacot.

  • Bacot, John, 1780-1870.
Date:
1821
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    failures ensued, that symptoms, more loath- some than those of the disease which it was designed to cure, often supervened; that the cure was often imperfect, and the issue far from according with the hopes and ex- pectations of the patient. Mercury, in con- sequence, began to lose ground in the esti- mation of the profession, and in the first years of the sixteenth century, new remedies were sought for with avidity. Among the first and most important of these is the guaiacum wood, which was brought from St. Domingo about .the year 1507, as the common and universal remedy employed in the West Indies, for the cure of every form of this disease. In 1517, Ulric Hutten published an account of his own cure, by the use of the decoction of guaiacum,* of which he gives the most clear and satisfac- tory account; but as the author had under- * Tl\e mode in which the guaiacum was employed rendered this mode of cure sufficiently troublesome.