Cases and observations / by the Medical Society of New-Haven County, in the State of Connecticut, instituted in the year 1784.

  • Medical Society of New-Haven County.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Cases and observations / by the Medical Society of New-Haven County, in the State of Connecticut, instituted in the year 1784. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it X~f ' - •m /fR. S- H-, aged forty years, i\/jj a temperate man, and of a good con- Ifitutton, by profeffion a Ihoe-maker and tan¬ ner, was feized with an intenfe pain in the glands of the left groin, on September the 19th, 1784, for which a plaifter was applied, formed of the Oily dirt which fwine leave on fences after rub- bing. September 20th. I was fent for, and the mefi* fenger told me that the pain was intolerable; but I was engaged another way, and concluding that the diforfler would fubfide With an anodyne,^! fent him one. September 21ft. I vificed the patient, and found hiiin in a high fever j the fcrotum and penis greatly tiimified, and of a livid colour; 1 imme¬ diately opened a vein, and took away feventeen ounces of blood, which was as buffy as is ufual in a violent pleurify, with very little ferum ; I ordered a fomentation of bitter herbs boiled in water, to which was added ruin. After ufing the fomentation, I applied a cataplafm of white- bread, milk, and white rofe leaves, and I order¬ ed him to take a few doles of camphorated nitre. September 2ed. I found him {till under an high fever, and took twelve ounces more of blood, which was lefs buffy than before; the parts affe&ed now appeared to be in a ftate of mortification, black, and infenfible to the touch; I fcarified the penis and the fcrotum in feveral places, without giving pain to the patient, and then applied ftrong fpii its and the cataplafms as before; gave him a table-fpoonful of the cortex v ' ' ‘ * peruv.