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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    results, the nitrate of ammonia;* a salt, he observes, well known to the chemist, but not to the practis- ing physician. He has now employed it for some time in the treatment of these affections, and has been led to form a high opinion of its efficacy. The occasional use of the tepid or vapour bath, more particularly when the eruption is on the wane, will materially assist in restoring the skin to its original healthy condition. 2. Increased vascularity of throat.—This affection is not unfrequently coetaneous with the eruption previously described ; but as it is also met with as an uncomplicated sequela of the superficial primary ulcer, I thought it deserving of notice in a separate form. If we examine into the condition of the throat, we will find the inflammatory action dif- fused over the back of the pharynx, and engaging the tonsils, both of which are usually much swollen. The glands of the neck likewise, at a later period, most commonly participate in the enlargement. Much febrile excitement is present at the com- mencement of the attack, and the patient experi- ences considerable pain and difficulty in deglutition, in consequence of the inflamed and approximated state of the tonsils. I have never known ulceration, either at the * R. Ammoniac nitratis, 388. Aquae purae, 3vss. Fyrupi. aurant. giv. Misce; sumat cochlcaria duo ampla ter in die. M