Practical observations on venereal complaints, or, A plain, easy, safe and certain method of cure without endangering the constitution with mercury : an efficacious mode of curing gleets, seminal or venereal and every other malady of the urinary passage.

  • Neale, Henry St. John.
Date:
1786
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    ifrudtiops in the paflage, when it is con- fidered the mode that was made ufe of to cure their claps. Let the reader obferve, there never was a gleet, that has not been more or lefs preceded by a clap; and ac- cording to the means made ufe of to cure it, will the glands in the urinary paffage be affedted ; or, in other words, the fuf- ferer will be more or lefs troubled with a gleet, or weaknefs, and will be more or lefs liable to fungus, or callofities form- ing in the canal. There would be lit- tle occaiion for bougies, was this difeafe treated properly at its beginning ; and the ftate of the paflage of urine at- tended to. Upon confldering the old mode of prac- tice, handed down to us by fome of the mold reipedtable authors of the profeflion, it is not much to be wondered at fo few furgeons differing from thofe learned men, who carried every thing before them in their day. Our Englifh Hypocrates, the great Sydenham, as well as Wifeman, the firft furgeon of his time, lays it down as