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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

    3/126
    PEEEACE. The work I now publish (my third on the same subject), is not an essay on the nature, pathology, or causes of syphilitic diseases, but a clinical account of the best mode of cure. In this country, at least, we know that such diseases are rarely to be cured without mercury; and even those empirics who advertise a cure with- out this drug, give it, whilst they condemn it, as an examination of their remedies at once shows. Whilst on the one hand I admit, with the best surgeons, that in this country, and in private practice more especially, the difficulty, and even impossibility, of curing venereal diseases without mercury, I think that the ordinary modes of its exhibition not only frequently fail in curing the diseases for which it is given, but a class of affections are constantly produced which are the result of mercurial treatments, so that on many forms of constitutional syphilis being pre- sented to our notice, it is difficult to say how