Reports principally concerning the effects of the nitrous acid in the venereal disease, by the surgeons of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, and by other practitioners / published by Thomas Beddoes, M.D.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Reports principally concerning the effects of the nitrous acid in the venereal disease, by the surgeons of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, and by other practitioners / published by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    R Acidi nitrofi drachmas ij. Syrupi fimplicis uncias viii. Aqiia2 fontanas libras ij. M. Capiat quotidie. The day after, finding himfelf fomcvvhat better, the drink was continued, and from the above alarming fymptoms yielding, and an entire alteration taking place both in his health and appearance of the ulcers, he took it to the loth of May, when he complained the drink vomited him. The nitric acid was then reduced to one drachm daily, which he drank without any uneafy fenfation in his ftomach, and continued it in that proportion to the 30th day of May ; when his buboes and chancre being healed, and all his venereal complaints entirely gone, the drink was no longer ufed, and he was difcharged from the Jloyal Hofpital on the 5 th day of June, in order to join his Ihip.