Urino-genital diseases. : Pt. I. On gonorrhoea and gleet in the male; exemplifying the influence of a scrofulous or scorbutic state of system in producing those morbid secretions; and shewing that the true nature of their diseases action is irritative, not inflammatory. / By George Franks, surgeon.

  • Franks, George.
Date:
MDCCCXLVI. [1846]
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Credit: Urino-genital diseases. : Pt. I. On gonorrhoea and gleet in the male; exemplifying the influence of a scrofulous or scorbutic state of system in producing those morbid secretions; and shewing that the true nature of their diseases action is irritative, not inflammatory. / By George Franks, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    public medical institutions, who favoured me with the following testimonials—namely, from Mr. Bransby Cooper, surgeon to Guy's Hospital, as under:— “ Mr. Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. George Franks, and has great pleasure in bearing- testimony to the efficacy of his solution of copaiba in gonor- rhoea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has prescribed the solu1- tion in ten or twelve cases with perfect success. “ New-street, April 13/A, 1835.” From Mr. Alexander Tweedie, surgeon to the Free Hospital, Greville-street, Hatton Garden, I received the following letter:— “ My Dear Sir,—I have notes of six cases, in which I have administered your preparation of copaiba for the cure of gonorrhoea, in all of which the disease has been subdued in a shorter period of time than according to the ordinary plans hitherto made use of. Besides these cases of which I have taken notes, I have tried it in several instances at the Gre- ville-street Hospital, and am quite satisfied that it possesses a control over the urgent symptoms of gonorrhoea, relieving- the discharge and mitigating the scalding in making water, that I have not observed in the usual methods of exhibitin-o- copaiba. In one instance only did it disagree with the stomach ; but in this it seemed to depend rather on the me- thod of exhibition than on the remedy itself, for, on diluting it with a larger quantity of water, the objection was at once obviated, and the patient got well in ten days from the time- that he commenced taking the medicine. I have not had a case in which the discharge continued longer than ten days after commencing this treatment. “ I am, dear sir, yours very truly, “April 15/A, 1835.” (Signed) “ Alexander Tweedie.