An essay on syphilis : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by George Ballingall.

  • Ballingall, George, 1780-1855.
Date:
1820
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Credit: An essay on syphilis : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by George Ballingall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ have so many practitioners been almost uniformly successful in their treatment of Syphilis by mer- cury ?” * In speaking of the use of mercury in the treat¬ ment of Syphilis, we have the following observa- • tions by Mr. Pearson, whose experience in this dis¬ ease gives him a claim to attention which few others possess. “ My opportunities of administering mer- “ cury,” says he, “ have not extended to less than “ twenty thousand cases, and I feel myself fully au- “ thorised to assert that it is a remedy always to be “ confided in under every form of Lues Yenerea; u and, where we have only this one disease to con- “ tend with, that it is a certain antidote, and as “ safe in its operation as any other active medi- “ cine, drawn from the vegetable or the mineral “ kingdom.” f When treating of the sarsaparilla, the same author observes : “ I have employed the <£ sarsaparilla in powder and in decoctions in an al- “ most infinite variety of cases, and I feel myself “ fully authorised to assert that this plant has not “ the power of curing any one form of the Lues Ve- * Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. 13, page 492. t Pearson on the effects of various articles in the cure of Lues Venerea, 2d edition, page 117.