Syphilitic diseases : their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including experimental researches on inoculation, as a differential agent in testing the character of these affections / by John C. Egan.

  • Egan, John C.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Syphilitic diseases : their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including experimental researches on inoculation, as a differential agent in testing the character of these affections / by John C. Egan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    most efficacious in restoring the uterus to its ori- ginal healthy condition. As a substitute for in- jections into the cavity of the uterus, (which, from the untoward and dangerous consequences known to result upon their employment, it is desirable to avoid as much as possible) I am in the habit of introducing through the os a finely pointed pen- cil of nitrate of silver, and allowing it to remain in contact with the lining membrane of the uterus for a minute or two. This usually causes a mo- mentary sensation of pain, but I have never known it productive of any ulterior ill-effects. In order to illustrate the trifling inconvenience produced by this remedial agent, I may mention that patients are constantly in the habit of walking distances to their homes almost immediately after the operation. This plan of treatment will likewise be found serviceable, where the follicular glands about the os are the seat of the disease. The prevalence of gonorrhoea in Dublin during the last few years, offered unusual advantages to a person anxious to investigate the true nature of that disease ; and in no institution were greater facilities afforded for such a line of study than in our Lock Hospital, containing 130 female patients, two-thirds of whom, at least, were at one time labouring under this affection. I was the more desirous of making myself perfectly familiar with the appearances of the vagina and uterus, as pre- sented by the speculum ; as no British hospital had