A medical treatise on the virtues of St Bernard's Well, illustrated with select cases : addressed to Francis Garden, Esq. of Gardenstone ... proprietor of St Bernard's Well / auctore J. Taylor.

  • Taylor, J. (John), -1821.
Date:
1790
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Credit: A medical treatise on the virtues of St Bernard's Well, illustrated with select cases : addressed to Francis Garden, Esq. of Gardenstone ... proprietor of St Bernard's Well / auctore J. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 9° ) CASE VI. Venereal. AB, a young gentleman,, aged 25 years, of a ftrong athletic make? two years ago, applied to one of the mod eminent of our Surgeons for a venereal tu- mour in his groin. Suppurative applica- tions were ufed to ripen the abfcefs, until it begun to feel foft and fluctuate. It was opened with a lancet, and difcharged a fmall quantity of a bloody indigefted fanies. The tumour did not fublide, but retained its inflammatory appearance, attended with excruciating pain, and aTymptomatic fever, which was iemoved by bleeding, a low re- gimen, and a courfe of antiphlogiftic me- dicines. Afterwards, he underwent a mer- curial