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.

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    above preparation, they must be covered with pledgets dipped in the same, which are to be constantly renewed as often as they come be dry or warm, and covered with a cloth, which must be kept wet. When the inflammation is high, an(j groat pajn is expe_ rienced, a poultiee of bread and milk moist- ened with a little ointment of elder or olive oil to prevent its becoming hard, should be applied at night. If it is most resolving on the next morning, take a bolus of half a crachm of compound extract of Colocyntb, with five grains of the quicksilver pills. The warm bath will hasten its removal. If a liniment be preferred to the lotion, Take of Oil of Olives, Oil of Aniseed Camphor, of each one ounce, To be used with pledgets as before-mentioned every two or three hours? mentioned. By a proper attention to the above direc- tions, with a moderate degree of care, the pa- tient will experience the&most beneficial ef- ilamm,tn ^ of all the in- flammatory symptoms, which are attendant dLrder. at,ng °f the Venereal Bubo. The bubo is usually considered as a kind •f intermediate state between the local and c 2