The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases, both primary and secondary : comprising an account of the new remedies, with numerous formulae for their preparation, and mode of administration / by Langston Parker.

  • Parker, Langston, 1805?-1871.
Date:
1840
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    preference to the other salts of this metal. It may be given inter- nally in pills or in solution in the same doses as the bichloride. Employed by friction upon indolent buboes or exostoses, it is said to be preferable to all other forms of the remedy. It is of use also as a dressing to indolent chancres. Ointment of the Deuto-Phosphate of Mercury. ?(. Hydrargyri deuto-phosphatis, gr. viij. Adipis, %]. M. ft. Unguent. In cases of indolent bubo, a few grains are rubbed daily upon the tumour, the frictions also are to be made upon the groin of the opposite side. Our experience in the use of this remedy is drawn chiefly from the practice of Fiore and the Neapolitan surgeons, it is scarcely used in France, although occasionally employed in Germany. section in. On Inoculation, as applied to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilitic Diseases. 60. Both before and since the time of Hunter, inoculation has been employed for the purpose of testing the character of syphilitic diseases: and at the present day, M. Ricord, Surgeon to the Pari- sian Civil Venereal Hospital, has deduced, from an extended series of experiments, certain conclusions of great value and importance, which he has given to the world in his great work Traite pratique des Maladies Veneriennes,ou Recherches critiques et experimental sur l'lnoculation, appliquee a l'etude de ces Maladies.1 61. M. Ricord establishes, in the first place, that a chancre, wherever it may be seated, is produced by a specific matter which is secreted by a chancre only, which matter produces a similar disease whenever placed in circumstances favourable to contagion. 62. This specific matter is only secreted from the surface of a chancre during its first stage, that is, during the period of ulcera- tion, or when the sore is indolent or stationary. At these periods only does a chancre secrete a specific matter capable of producing a similar disease by inoculation. When the sore begins to heal and a process of reparation has commenced, it is merely a simple ulcer, does not furnish a specific secretion, and is not capable of propaga- tion by inoculation.2 Mt^woulVapppear that these views were likewise entertained by Dr Wallace who divided chancre into two distinct stages or phases, the first one of ulceration, the second one of reparation ; he particularly insists upon the impropriety and danger of administering mercury during the first stage, that of ulceration.