The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases : both primary and secondary ; comprising an account of the new remedies, with numerous formulæ, for their preparation, and mode of administration / by Langston Parker.

  • Parker, Langston, 1805?-1871.
Date:
1839
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    solution in the same doses as the bichloride. Employed by friction upon indolent buboes or exostoses,it is said to be preferable to all other forms of the remedy. It is of use also as a dressing to indolent chancres. OINTMENT OF THE DEUTO-PHOSPHATE OF MERCURY. R. Hydrargyri deuto-phosphatis, gr. viij. Adipis, Jj. M. ft. Unguent. In cases of indolent bubo, a few grains are rubbed daily upon the tumour, the frictions also are to be made upon the groin of the opposite side. Our experience in the use of this remedy is drawn chiefly from the practice of Fiore and the Neapolitan surgeons, it is scarcely used in France, although occasionally em- ployed in Germany. SECTION III. On Inoculation, as applied to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilitic J)iseases. 60. Both before and since the time of Hunter, inocu- lation has been employed for the purpose of testing the character of syphilitic diseases; and at the present day, M. Ricord, Surgeon to the Parisian Civil Vene- real Hospital, has deduced, from an extended series of experiments, certain conclusions of great value and importance, which he has given to the world in his great work Traite pratique des Maladies Veneriennes, ou Recherches critiques et experimentales sur i'lno- culation, appliquee a Tetude de ces Maladies.* * Paris. 1838.