Volume 1

A treatise of the venereal disease in six books; containing an account of the original, propagation, and contagion of this distemper in general. As also of the nature, cause, and cure of all venereal disorders in particular ... Together with an abridgment of the several discourses, which have been written upon this subject from the first appearance of the venereal disease in Europe to this time, with critical remarks upon them / Written originally in Latin. And now translated into English by William Barrowby.

  • Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766
Date:
1737
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Credit: A treatise of the venereal disease in six books; containing an account of the original, propagation, and contagion of this distemper in general. As also of the nature, cause, and cure of all venereal disorders in particular ... Together with an abridgment of the several discourses, which have been written upon this subject from the first appearance of the venereal disease in Europe to this time, with critical remarks upon them / Written originally in Latin. And now translated into English by William Barrowby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13. Biit deeper rhagades which are of the benign icind^ that is, whofe lips are foft and void of callofi- ties, if they are very painful, are to be eafed with the fame remedies which we propofed in the foregoing article; but if they are free from inflammation and teniion, they fhould be waflied cum aqua Fhagcedentcd jmtiore^ or touclit lightly with the 'Laps Lnfn'ndis^ or dreffed with the unguentum ^gypiactm^ that the putre¬ fied face of the ulcer may be renewed. Laftly the ulcers being deterged and cleahfed, the cbolihg oint¬ ments propofed above are to be applied, that the acri mony of the juices being mitigated, the cicatrix may be happily brought on. 14. If the rhagades are malignant, that is, if their lips are hard, callous, and turned back, and have an obfeure fhooting pain, (^c. the face of the ulcer fhould be well fcarified, and the lips, if they are hard, fhould be cut deep with the ends of the feiflbrs. Then the blood being Hopped by the help of dr)^ lint, on the following day the fulci of the rhagades fliould be dreffed with U77guentum JEgyptaciim^ or Bafdicon cum pr<:ecipi~ tato ruhro j and if thefe fliould not be equal to the talk, the ulcers fliould be touched with the Lapis In^ fernaliSj or the Lapis Caujtkus Vulgaris^ till an efehar is burnt, which fhould penetrate to the quick; the efehar failing off, you may drefs with BafiUco7i or baL famum Arcesi alone, or mixt with cathceretics, as you fliall fee fit. 15. If the malignant rhagades are become gangre¬ nous or cancerous, or feem to tend that way, then laying afide all delay, you muft attempt to relieve thefe mofl: defperate diforders. To this end, cutting away the difeafed parts with the feiffors, burn the ulcer with the abl'ual cautery, that the diforder may be drop¬ ped. After this the efehar falling off, the ulcer which remains, is to be treated in the manner v/e have fre¬ quently already direbled. 16. Laflrly, if fuppurated criflas^ mora^ marifcde^ if ulcerated rhagades fecretly form fifluU of various kinds in the podex and neighbouring parts, either blind or open, deep or cutaneous, fhrait or oblique, fimple or I i com-