[The dictionary of surgery:] or the young surgeon's pocket assistant / [Benjamin Lara].

  • Lara, Benjamin, 1770?-1848
Date:
[1796?]
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    Without any late contagion, it then is the pathognomo- nic hgn of a latent pox. This tumour fhould be diftinguiflied from thofe that arc limply inflammatory, peftilential, ftrumous, or the critical difcharge of fome other diforder ; and when in the groin, it mull be diftinguifned from the epiplocele, and the enterocele. Alfo from the detention of a tef- ticle in the groin. In order to the cure, when venereal, the chief con- fideration is to deftroy the venereal poifon with which the body is contaminated; this done, the bubo is no other than a hmple tumour or abfcefs in the part; this being duly adverted to, if the bubo is but in its begin- ning, it may generally be difperfed by bleeding, if the habit is inflammatory, or a fanguine plethora is manifeft ; and by rubbing as much of the ung. hydrargyri fort, on the patient’s groin as he can bear without falivating; gentle purging, at proper intervals, and a cooling diet, alTifl this intention. But if, by the increafe of the in- flammation, it appears that a fuppuration is likely to follow, the fooner this flate is completed, the more perfe6t and fatisfa6lory will be the cure. The com- mon bread poultice applied warm, or, if this cannot be complied with, a foft plafter, on which is galbanum, may be applied; all evacuations mud now be forborne, and the diet maybe more generous. The prominent part of the fuppurated fhould be opened with a cauftic, and the ulcer treated as is common in venereal cafes. The buboes that are feirrhous or cancerous, are bed if left quiet, efpecially while they are eafy : when they are painful, treat them as occult cancers. Vide Surgery. AJlruc on the Venereal Dlf- cafe. Chap77iari% Abridgment of AJiruc, Bell\ Sur- gery, voi. V. Wallh\ Sydenham, vol. i, p. 143. ‘'Vhite\ Surgery, p. 20. Plenck on the Lues Venerea. Sivediaur and Bell on the Veneral Difeafe. Alfo Foot and Hunlei'. Bubonocklej from the groin, a