Lac-elephantis, or, medicated milk of elephants : an effectual cure for debility, seminal-weakness, gleets, impotency, spasmodic stricture, blindness, and the venereal disease, in both sexes : with a plain prescription, whereby all persons affected by impure connexion, can radically cure themselves for five shillings, the first day : under the caveat of government, to guard youth against ignorant pretenders, and pretended institutions, for curing these complaints / by P. Campbell.

  • Campbell, P.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Lac-elephantis, or, medicated milk of elephants : an effectual cure for debility, seminal-weakness, gleets, impotency, spasmodic stricture, blindness, and the venereal disease, in both sexes : with a plain prescription, whereby all persons affected by impure connexion, can radically cure themselves for five shillings, the first day : under the caveat of government, to guard youth against ignorant pretenders, and pretended institutions, for curing these complaints / by P. Campbell. 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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    i-haudepiase) as the Medicated Elephants Milk. Ill 1 aria a gentleman, residing No. o, tvne dc lioiirboii, had been afflicted with the disease for six months the irritation became at last so great, that he was seized with convulsions ; syn- cope, and the most violent spasms, w hich re- enred in paroxysms twice every day : in this situation his medical attendant brought me to see him, and finding that the only chance of preserving his life was by allaying the irri- tation^ 1 directed the Elephant's Milk to be t iken four times a day. On the evening qf the first day that I saw him, I directed him to he put into a warm hath, and on my visiting him next morning, I found he had passed -a gooii night, w'ithoiit any return of the paroxism. He continued the medicine four days more, during which time he had only one slight re- turn of the syncope, and on the sixth day he went out in his carriage to a review :—on the seventh day 1 again visited him,when I found that every symptom of the disease and irritation had left him. Mr. Lemere, the surgeon, next day called me in to visit a lady whose husband had crept into an error ; 1 found that the swelling of the parts was enormous, and the pain and irritation intolerable. Leeches, poultices, fo- mentations, and coaling medicines, had been