An essay on the gonorrhoea : with some observations on the use of opium, in the cure of that disease / by William Thomas.

  • Thomas, William.
Date:
1780
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Credit: An essay on the gonorrhoea : with some observations on the use of opium, in the cure of that disease / by William Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fary, becaufe the venercai virus is Aippofed to re- main unfubdu^d* it is never found to give way to mercury, if continued'daily for ever fo ‘long^ ^ time after the inflammation is allayed. The habit is always weakened by it without any advantage to the local complaint—the difcharge continues till ^ the mercury is left off, and re- ‘courfe is had to fuch means and medicines as ftrengthen the fyftem in general. tJpon a difcontinuance of all enervating me- dicines, Nature will often in time recover her- 'felf, butdn general the cure may be expedited 'by the adminiftration of proper reftorauves. From thefe and feveral other very convincing proofs, I can venture to affirm, that after the in- *flammatory fymptoms have entirely vanifhed;* the * * A Gentleman, by a very tedjous proceft of mtreury for (he 'cure 'of a gonorrhoea, contrafled fonie months before 1 faw him, .had his general health much impaired, without complcating a cure, a difcolourred running from the.ulethra ftill comiiuiing. At the time lie applied to me, the parts appeared by much in too irrita- ■ ble a Hate to fuppofe the inflammation was entirely allayed. I .dcfired him to take no more mereUfy of any kind, whieh feemed to impair his health, and as I thought not likely to fupprefs the dif- charge. I gave him a grain of E». thebaic, to take eveiy night, and defired him to make ufe of the oily anodyne injeftion j by which meant the infianathatory fymptejmt that rctnaiiicd were Teen Tctnovfid: . Yet / i