The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases, both primary and secondary. Comprising numerous formulae for the preparation and mode of administration of the new remedies; and an account of a safe and successful mode of treating chronic, protracted, and constitutional syphilis by the mercurial vapour-bath / by Langston Parker.

Date:
1845
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Credit: The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases, both primary and secondary. Comprising numerous formulae for the preparation and mode of administration of the new remedies; and an account of a safe and successful mode of treating chronic, protracted, and constitutional syphilis by the mercurial vapour-bath / by Langston Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    two inflamed surfaces, notwithstanding an appropriate treat- ment, in all other respects, may be methodically practised; hence, certain forms of superficial primary syphilis, or of balanitis,1 and posthitis,2 are kept up by the contact of the glans penis and prepuce, and some gleets protracted from the contact of the two sides of the urethra. Fricke, of Hamburg, first established this fact, which has been verified in the prac- tice of Desruelles and Ricord; the latter has frequently suc- ceeded in curing obstinate gleets by introducing a small portion of lint into the urethra, dry, or soaked in a mild astringent solution. The prepuce and glans, when either is the seat of irritation or ulceration, should always be separated by the in- troduction of fine linen, or lint. The continued contact of the glans and prepuce, when inflamed or ulcerated, frequently oc- casions then* total or partial adherence. 24. Parts affected with syphilis which are deeply seated, or covered by folds of integuments or mucous membrane, should be daily cleansed by tepid anodyne or astringent in- jections, according to the character of the accompanying irri- tation. These injections should be practised quietly, without force, and without creating pain. 25. Abscesses should be opened early, more particularly if the presence of matter occasions much pain, or take place under fascise or tendinous expansions, where the pus cannot readily make its way to the surface. Long and deep sinuses should be laid freely open, or if it be practicable, a counter- opening may be made. 26. All parts in a state of natural or acquired strangulation which offer impediments to the cure of syphilitic diseases should be quickly relieved; this becomes necessary in natural or acquired phymosis or paraphymosis. The circumstances which contra-indicate this practice will be mentioned under the article on the particular diseases themselves. 1 Balanitis, from (3a\avog, glans ; inflammation of the glans penis. s Posthitis, from iroarr], preputium, inflammation of the prepuce ; the term balano-posthitis, where both glans and prepuce are inflamed, is em- ployed by some modern writers on syphilis. 1 §