A treatise on the venereal disease / by G. Renny, surgeon to the Athol Highlanders.

  • Renny, George, approximately 1760-1847.
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by G. Renny, surgeon to the Athol Highlanders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cbndu£l:ed etttirely upon the pnncipks laid down when treating of fhaacre ; and as in this cafe there is every reafon for fuppofing ^he virus to exifi: very ge- nerally in the fyftem, the adminiftration of thercUry Is to he continued for fonie tithe after every appearance of difeafe has gone off, attending at the fame time to the proper fuppbrt of the habit, fo as to give the medicine its faireft chance of fuccefs. The topical tfeatment here required, is hinply to keep the parts clean, by gargling with warm milk and water, as all acrid fubftances, by irritating the fores and ehcrealing the inflammation, fetve to retard the healing. lExcrefcences iifuated round the vferge df the anus, aiid on the fiirface of the fcroturn, are ahother very common lyniptorri of the confirmed lues, and as l^ch, require nothing particular in thfeir treat-