The treatment of secondary, constitutional, and confirmed syphilis, by a safe and successful method : with numerous cases, and clinical observations ... / by Langston Parker.

Date:: 1850

Credit: The treatment of secondary, constitutional, and confirmed syphilis, by a safe and successful method : with numerous cases, and clinical observations ... / by Langston Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$nitric acid, and some of the compound extract Case 30. of sarsaparilla, with two grains of the extract of opium every night. The vapour of three grains of the iodide of mercury was also di- rected into the throat every other day. In eighteen days the ulcers had healed, and the patient has not again relapsed. This is not a solitary case: I have seen a Observations, great number exactly similar, where ulcers which had healed under mercury, internally administered, have frequently again broken out, and have at length rapidly and perma- nently closed under treatment by the vapour; of all local treatments to venereal ulcers of the throat, none are equal to the moist mercurial fume. Whether there be mere redness, the excavated ulcer, creeping or superficial ulcers, this is the local remedy ''par excellence Clara C , a patient in the Queen's Hos- pital, had superficial ulceration, with much redness of the throat, and shining copper- coloured blotches on the head and other parts \ she had been treated by a long course of the bichloride of mercury, which had cured the 5$