The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases : both primary and secondary, comprising the treatment of constitutional and confirmed syphilis by a safe and successful method, with numerous cases, formulae, and clinical observations / by Langston Parker.

  • Parker, Langston, 1805?-1871.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases : both primary and secondary, comprising the treatment of constitutional and confirmed syphilis by a safe and successful method, with numerous cases, formulae, and clinical observations / by Langston Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VI. OF DISEASES WHICH SUCCEED TO, OR COMPLICATE GONORRHOEA IN THE MALE. PAGE Alteration in the natural elasticity of the urethra—Stricture—Ab- scesses in the perineum, and vicinity of the anus—Gonorrheal rheumatism—Its two forms—Gonorrheal diseases of the eye— Gonorrheal ophthalmia — Treatment of—Local remedies— Specific remedies—Mercury—Restoration of the urethral dis- charge—Gonorrheal iritis—Gonorrheal diseases of the testes and their envelopes—Orchitis, how and at what period it occurs — Causes—Differential diagnosis—Illustrative cases— Treatment—Chronic enlargement of the testis—General weak- ness and irritability of ihe sexual and urinary organs a conse- quence of gonorrhea—General remarks on the treatment of such diseases ......... 81—96 CHAPTER VII. OF GONORRHOEA IN THE FEMALE. Its nature—Seat—Pathology—Use of the speculum—Internal treat- ment—Local treatment—Treatment of the more chronic forms ■—Forms for topical applications—Complications—Differential diagnosis—Difficulties in treatment . ... 97—104 CHAPTER VIII. OF THE SECOND CLASS OF PRIMARY SYPHILITIC DISEASES—ULCERS, THEIR VARIETIES AND CONSEQUENCES. Classification of primary venereal sores—Their varied aspect fre- quently dependent on their seat—Diagnosis of—Is a primary venereal sore always a local disease ?—Is a so-called chancre ever the first evidence of a constitutional taint ? — Abortive treatment of primary sores, by escharotics—Local treatment— Constitutional treatment—Diet—Mild local treatment recom- mended—The Author's views on the use of caustics—Those recommended—How to be used—When their use is contra- indicated—Phimosis—Primary inflammation—Question of the propriety of mercurial treatment considered—Local treatment of the second stage of chancre—The indurated primary ulcer— Its treatment—Persistent induration of the cicatrix . . ] 05—120