The history of the early and present state of the venereal disease examined: wherein is shewn that mercury never was necessary for its cure, as well as the injurious consequences that result from its employment; at the same time pointing out approved modes of treatment founded on its pathology / [George Hume Weatherhead].

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853
Date:
1841
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Credit: The history of the early and present state of the venereal disease examined: wherein is shewn that mercury never was necessary for its cure, as well as the injurious consequences that result from its employment; at the same time pointing out approved modes of treatment founded on its pathology / [George Hume Weatherhead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BARR0UGH, WISEMAN, to the celebrated Lord Burleigh, in treating of “ stopping of the urine,” in the forty-seventh chapter of his third book, enumerates among the causes of this affection “ some piece of flesh or hard knob,” and says it may be discovered by putting “ a cyring into that part of the conduite or passage where you conjectured the bile (boil) to be before, when it moveth paine ; and the flesh being broken with the cyring, there floweth out with the pissing of the urine both bloud and frag¬ ments of flesh.” For the cure he advises “ bath¬ ings and other dissolving and loosening medi¬ cines, and such as do open and spread abroad the pipe and conduite of urine.” Wiseman also believed that caruncles in the urethra arose from gonorrhoea when the cure was “ slubber’d over or long delayed.” He gives us some curious information respecting the manner of preparing the armed bougie in his day : —the wax was scraped off the end of a small wax candle, and the wick dipped in the escharotic composition melted; when it had cooled, the end was smoothed. From him also we learn that the wax-chandler made the bougies in his time—making them exactly in the same manner as candles are made. The reader, of course, knows that wax-candles are called bougies in France at this day.