The elements of a new materia medica and therapeutics : Based upon an entirely new collection of drug-provings and clinical experience / By E.E. Marcy, J.C. Peters & Otto Füllgraff.

  • Marcy, E. E. (Erastus Edgerton), 1815-1900.
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[1850?]
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    Colchicum is the antipathic remedy for retention of urea in the system; I have seen much benefit from itsuse before I was acquainted with the homceopathicity of Nitrate of Silver to this disease. (11.) Male Genital Organs.—Want of sexual desire, the sexual organs having become shrivelled. Painful coition. Frequent nightly semi- nal emissions. Chancre-like ulcers on the prepuce. (32.) Clinical Remarks.—In gonorrhoza of the male, the introduction of a bougie smeared with an ointment of Nitrate of Silver, is occasionally a most effectual cure, but the practice is a dangerous one. In one case, acute and nearly fatal urethritis was brought on by its employ- ment. The patient was a dresser at one of the London hospitals, and had practiced this mode of treatment in many instances on the hospi- tal patients with the happiest results. An aqueous solution of the Salt has been successfully used in chronic gonorrhoea. (3. 46.) In gonorrhoea, the Nitrate in solution often proves an effectual injec- tion. Ricord advises it at the outset of the attack. He states that by this means the attack may invariably be cut short, in the first stage. A similar opinion is expressed by Dr. Graves, Mr. Acton, and other experienced writers. The injection is to be repeated, desisting, how- ever, if the discharge is rendered thin and bloody, an ordinary effect of the application. A weak solution of Zinc or Alum should then be had recourse to. (44. 46.) In the chronic stage of gonorrhoea, this injection also often proves serviceable. (44. 46.) The Argentum-Nitratum has been very useful in gonorrhoea, when locally applied, at or previous to the first appearance of the discharge. It is generally used in the proportion of ten grains to the ounce of distilled water, and applied by means of a glass syringe. It should be repeated twice or three times at intervals of twenty-four hours. (45. 54.) Mr. Druitt recommends a dilute and almost homoeopathic injection of the strength of two grains to eight ounces of water, repeated twelve times at intervals of four hours. This is the best practice, and that which is followed by Carmichael. See Am. Jour. Horn., Vol. 4, p. 139. (54.) In strictures of the urethra and wsophagus, bougies armed with lu- nar caustic in the points, are occasionally employed with great advan- tage. When the common bougie is formed, (cereolus simplex,) the point of it should be heated with a conical piercer, and the caustic in- troduced while the composition is quite soft. The point of the bougie should then be rubbed on a piece of polished marble, till no inequa- lities in the size of it appear. (3. 46.) Notwithstanding that the application of Nitrate of Silver to stric- ture of the urethra has been advocated by Mr. Hunter, Sir E. Home, Mr. Wilson, Dr. Andrews, and others, it is now but little employed; yet its safety and efficacy in many obstinate cases, when the simple bougie fails, is undoubted, from repeated observation. It is commonly supposed that it acts by burning or destroying the stricture; such is