De venereo morbo : the popular foundation of health, or a practical treatise of treatment and cure on the venereal disease, strictures, gleets, impotency, etc. to which is added a glossary / [Job Hallett].

  • Hallett, Job.
Date:
[1822?]
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Credit: De venereo morbo : the popular foundation of health, or a practical treatise of treatment and cure on the venereal disease, strictures, gleets, impotency, etc. to which is added a glossary / [Job Hallett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    After the pain or inflammation is abated, which will be the case after a few doses of the pills being regularly taken, the running will gradually diminish ; when it becomes ro- py andsticky if pulled with the finger, and of a whitish appearance, the patient may rest assured that the Venereal taint is subdued. Chordee. A Chordee is known by the incurvation of the penis downwards, during an erection, which is attended with considerable pain. The cure is assisted by fomenting the part with warm milk and water, and rubbing- in the size of a grey pea or small horsebean of the strong blue ointment, to which may be added a small quantity of gum camphor twice a day, under the penis, the whole lengtjiof the ure- thra. These painful erections are frequent-? ly relieved by taking thirty drops of tincture of opium in a glass of water at bed time, if not sufficient add five more each night till ef- fective. When thepain i& intolerable, leeches may be applied to the aggrieved part with no bad effect. X.he bowels should also be kept gently open with two of the Merone Pills, morning and evening, washing them down as before recommended. Bleeding and violent purging are here equally improper and use- less ; there needs no alteration in diet, or any hindrance to business, unless great inflam? mation should accompany the chordee. The following pills would be highly ser*