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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    and Henry;1 lead/ cantharides, and turpentine.3 In all in- stances however, of chronic discharges from the urethra, this canal should be carefully examined, to determine, if possible, the pathological conditions which keep up or are associated with the discharge; without this we must be at a loss for correct indications, we must prescribe at hazard, and our patient's disease may be prolonged indefinitely. It is often of great service to employ small local bleedings from the peri- neum at the time we are using astringent or tonic injections, or the remedies alluded to in the present chapter. I have hitherto said nothing about the use of mercury in Useofmer- gonorrhcea, because I do not believe in the specific effect of mer- norrhceaS° cury over purely gonorrhoeal diseases.4 Dr. Wallace employed it constantly in gonorrhoea till the system was brought slightly under its influence, with the view of preventing bubo and secondary symptoms. I believe this opinion to have origi- nated, as I have before stated, in a false notion of the pathology and nature of this disease. Whilst, however, I 1 Jo Ferri iodidi, gr. ij ad v, or more. Pulv. opii, gr. \; Mucilaginis, q. s.; ft. pil. Ter. die sumend. 2 5t> Plumbi acetatis, 9j; Bals. copaibae, 5j; Pulv. glycyrrhizse, q. s.; ft. pil. xxiv. Dose.—One pill to eight. Employed with advantage by Dearuelles in chronic gonorrhoea, or gleet. 3 Ijc Terebintkinse chise, Sanguinis draconis, aa 51J; Olei terebinth., q. s.; ft. pil. xxx. Lose.—From three to six or more in the day. 5c Guaiaci resinse, pulv., Terebinthinae chise, at 5j- M. ft. pil. xxiv. Capt. iii v. iv bis terve die. In gleet, or chronic gonorrhoea. 4 Yet I have seen two cases, one where an accidental salivation cured an inveterate class, and another case, of fourteen months' duration, where an eminent surgeon prescribed mercury to salivation with success.