Memoir on the treatment of venereal diseases without mercury : employed at the military hospital of the Val-de-Grace / translated from the French of H.M.J. Desruelles ; to which is added Observations on the treatment of the venereal disease without mercury by G.J. Guthrie and various documents showing the results of this mode of treatment in Great Britain, France, Germany, and America.

  • Desruelles, H. M. J. (Henri Marie Joseph), 1791-1858.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Memoir on the treatment of venereal diseases without mercury : employed at the military hospital of the Val-de-Grace / translated from the French of H.M.J. Desruelles ; to which is added Observations on the treatment of the venereal disease without mercury by G.J. Guthrie and various documents showing the results of this mode of treatment in Great Britain, France, Germany, and America. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sand cases, they must be admitted to afford very fair means of comparison and to possess a high degree of value. M. Desruelles,from an experience in one thou- sand three hundred and twelve cases, states that the mean duration of treatment of primitive and secondary symptoms, without mercury, was thirty-two days, and with mercury, fifty days. It appears from the report of M. Hichond, who observed nearly three thousand patients, that of those treated without raercuryfor primitive symp- toms, ninety-two per cent, were cured in thirty days, whilst of those treated with mercury, only twenty- eight per cent, were cured in that period : and that of those treated for buboes without mercury, sixty per cent, were cured in thirty days, whilst of those treated with mercury, only twenty-seven per cent, were well in that time. Dr. Fricke states, that in his hospital, the ave- rage period of cure for primary and secondary affections, treated without mercury, was fifty days, whilst it was double that time in those treat- ed with mercury. It thus appears from the most authentic docu- ments, founded on experience in a sufficient num- ber of cases, and in different countries, that the