A collection of testimonies respecting the treatment of the venereal disease by nitrous acid / published by Thomas Beddoes, M.D.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A collection of testimonies respecting the treatment of the venereal disease by nitrous acid / published by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    urine, and on catching the flighted cold, great pains in his bones, particularly of the head. This man began to take the acid about the fame time with Wilfon, and with equal good effecl:. It is to be re- marked, that after ufing it a week, the dry crufty fcabs began to peel off, and fome of the large difcharged a good conditioned pus, were treated as iimple purulent ulcers and healed as kindly. The ulcer on the fcrotum healed in about a month; the tefticle was fomewhat reduced in lize, and free from pain. He returned to his duty on the firft of June. His ftomach could never bear- more than one hundred and feventy drops in twenty-four hours. About three weeks after he returned to duty, one of the larger! fores on the upper part of the leg broke out afrefh ; for which he took eight bottles more of the acid drink; it healed, and he has ever fince enjoyed good health. case hi. John Evans, aged twentyrthree, had venereal ulcers in his throat; venereal eruptions over his breaft, moulders, neck, face, and head, and of very long ftanding. For thefe he was put under a courfe of acid. nitr. fimilar to the proceeding cafes, and in due time, like them, reco- vered perfect health and ftrength. These relations, though haftily written, you may de- pend upon are authentic. I have been filent, with regard to diet; our ftoreson fhip-board admit of little variety ; fago, rice, cocoa, tea, and fugar, with portable broth, and occafional fupplies of vegetables from the Medufa hofpital fhip *, conftitute the * The Doftor has here overlooked thirteen prime jheep, jvhich I fcnt to the Royal Sovereign during the fumnicr cruize. C 3 principal