Practical observations on the nature and treatment of some exasperated symptoms attending the venereal disease. / By Edward Geoghegan, member of the Royal College of Surgeons; of the Royal Society, Edinburgh; and surgeon to the Dublin General Dispensary.

  • Geoghegan, E. (Edward)
Date:
1801
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Credit: Practical observations on the nature and treatment of some exasperated symptoms attending the venereal disease. / By Edward Geoghegan, member of the Royal College of Surgeons; of the Royal Society, Edinburgh; and surgeon to the Dublin General Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <57 no experience of their beneficial effects. It.comes simply to this ; Would highly irritating applica- tions be advisable in inflammation threatening mor- tification of any other part? It has been already proved, I presume, that it is not the venereal action that prevails; and the practice cotended for, is supported by Mr. H ’s maxim ; “ That no two actions can take place, in the same part at one and the same time;” to which I subscribe, for I conceive it perfectly consistent with the laws' of the animal ceconomv, that one disease should su- pervene on another suddenly, or progressively, and the new action prevail so as to suspend the original; although its ma.te.rits morbu, should still exist, and produce its effects, after the accessary disease had subsided; the treatment, therefore, should be such as the present disease indicated, K 2 which