A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhoea, vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph.

  • Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
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[1840]
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Credit: A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhoea, vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. On the remedies in general use for. the cure of Gonorrhoea,—how far these are to be depended on,—to what particular cases they are suited,— and how to use them to the best advantage. The remedies for the cure of Gonorrhoea are very few in number and are pretty generally known. Not- withstanding this however, their real nature is but little understood, so that they are often misap- plied. They are, internal and external. Of the first, the Balsam of Copaiva—the Cubebs—and the Tur- pentines, are the chief; the external or local consist of Lotions, used as injections. These internal re- medies are vegetable productions, whose properties very much resemble one another. All of them im- part their virtues to the urine, which, being retained in the bladder, impress upon it their peculiar effect, and this again is transmitted to the part which is the seat of the disease—the urinary passage. On the other hand, Injections consist of certain suitable stimulants, which are applied by means of a little syringe, more immediately to the seat of this dis- ease. Both kinds are exceedingly valuable in their proper places, but they are also, both of them, either useless or dangerous if improperly used or misap- plied. The object of this chapter, therefore, is to explain their use and nature more particularly.