Syphilis, its nature and treatment : with a chapter on gonorrhoea / by Charles Robert Drysdale.

  • Drysdale, Charles Robert, 1829-1907.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Syphilis, its nature and treatment : with a chapter on gonorrhoea / by Charles Robert Drysdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PEEFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. Since the appearance of this work there have been two debates on the subject of the'treatment of syphilis, one at the meeting of the British Medical Association of 1872, in Birmingham : the other at the Congres Medical dc France, held at Lyons in September, 1872. Mr. William Acton (British Medical Journal, Aug. 17, 1872,) read a paper on the modern treatment of the advanced stages of con- stitutional syphilis before the Surgical Section of the first of these assemblies, in which he remarked that, in cases of tertiary syphilis, many practitioners had begun to doubt whether the symptoms were syphilitic only, or not sometimes a combination of the diseases with the effects of mercury. In such cases, he commences treatment with the iodide of iron, and then proceeds to iodide of potassium ; adding in some cases bromide of potassium, where there are head symptoms. As a general rule, he says, mercury is not required in treating tertiaries : but when iodine “ hangs fire,” a course of mercury may be had recourse to, and he prefers inunction. Blisters or iodine paint are to be used to nodes. He has known obstinate symptoms, which have withstood iodine, disappear in a week under mercurial inunction. Dr. M. P. Ricord, who was present at the reading of Mr, Acton’s paper, remarked that as soon as he is convinced that he has a case of hard chancre before him, he commences with mercurial treatment: and affirms that in so doing he has often prevented the appearance