Observations on the different methods of treating the veneral disease / By William Dease.

  • Dease, William, 1752?-1798
Date:
1779
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Credit: Observations on the different methods of treating the veneral disease / By William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fprung up afrefh. He at laft came up to Dublin to have my advice: He had now been for a year difeafed, and never had any other venereal appearance 5 his con- ftitution feemed only affefted by the great quantity of medicine he had taken, As there feemed to be no doubt of his being poxed, the different treatments he undervv^ent having been by no means regu¬ lar, I advifed him to ftay under my care for fome time, to which he confented, I began with bleeding and gentle purging, and put him on a foft mild diet, &c. and made him take the warm bath. After twelve days preparation, during which time he bathed twelve times, I began with the mercurial fridlions, ufing only a drachm of ointment each time, and continued them fo as not to let the mercury afFe6t his mouth; the warts were left without any application, to wait the event. In fix weeks, not finding them likely to go oft*, I rubbed them with the lunar cauftics but in a little time they grew up as bigas ever. I then had recourfe to the lapis infernalis, and made the whole interior part of the prepuce