Essays on medical subjects, originally printed separately; to which is now prefixed an introduction relating to the use of hemlock and corrosive sublimate; and to the application of caustic medicines in cancerous disorders / By Thomas Gataker.

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769.
Date:
1764
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    obftinate, or is attended with other venereal complaints. The next fymptom to be confider’d is the bubo or fwelling in the groin, which often appears in a confirm’d pox, but is more fre¬ quently the immediate confequence of a chan¬ cre ; being generally attended with thofe kind of ulcers, or happening foon after they have been feemingly, tho’ imperfectly, cured. There are two ways propofed both by Turner and Aftruc for the cure of the bubo, viz. by difperfion or fuppuration. In the firft, mercurials are to be given in fuch a man¬ ner as not to falivate, unlefs the bubo be at¬ tended with fymptoms of a confirm’d pox, and then a falivation is to be enter’d upon immediately. In the other method, when the tumour is fuppurated the matter is to be dif- charged, the parts are to be treated with pro¬ per topics, and mercurials are to be then ad- minifter’d. For the difperfion of the tumour, Turner, as ufual, has recourfe to mercurial purges and vomits: Aftruc prefers fome of the prepara¬ tions of mercury or rather mercurial frictions, and fome of the milder purges occafionlly M 2 when