An essay on headachs [sic] and on their cure / [Walter Vaughan].

  • Vaughan, Walter
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1825
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    tero: and a child at its birth may bring Syphilis with it, although neither its father, nor its mo- ther have for many years had any symptom of this disease.* I have often seen infants not more than two months old, with copper-coloured spots on the skin, and eruptions papular, tuber- cular, or pustular, with hoarseness, ulcers in the mouth and throat, and upon the face, hands, and labia pudendi, which I cured with mercury, be- cause I thought them to be venereal ; but which I do not positively assert to have been so. I do not suppose, that the bones of infants are ever affected with Syphilis, which generally at- tacks the hardest and most compact bones, and the hardest and most compact parts of bones : but I suspect that they may be affected by it early in life; for I know, that a Headach occurs sometimes about the time of puberty, rages most during the night, the pains being as if the bones of the cranium were being torn asunder, and ex- tending down the cervical vertebrae; and that mercury has seemed to cure it. I do not, how- ever, ground my suspicion, that this Headach is venereal, entirely upon its raging most in the night; for | am aware that there are other pains as well as venereal, which rage most in the night :+ and also, that venereal pains do not al- ways rage most then.{ My suspicion rests more on such pains being often followed by eruptions. Hypertrophy of the brain, or enlargement of * Medico-ch. Transact. Vol. vir. p. 541. See the Life of William Hey, Esq. by J. Pearson, F.R.S. + Triller, Exercitatio de vespertina Morborum Exacerba- tione, Opuscul. Medic. Tom, ii. t Stoll, Ratio Medendi. Pars. 11. p. 163.