Memoir on the treatment of venereal diseases without mercury : employed at the military hospital of the Val-de-Grace / translated from the French of H.M.J. Desruelles ; to which is added Observations on the treatment of the venereal disease without mercury by G.J. Guthrie and various documents showing the results of this mode of treatment in Great Britain, France, Germany, and America.

  • Desruelles, H. M. J. (Henri Marie Joseph), 1791-1858.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Memoir on the treatment of venereal diseases without mercury : employed at the military hospital of the Val-de-Grace / translated from the French of H.M.J. Desruelles ; to which is added Observations on the treatment of the venereal disease without mercury by G.J. Guthrie and various documents showing the results of this mode of treatment in Great Britain, France, Germany, and America. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    there appears to be developed a hard body like cartilage; 3d. When ulcerations of the glans and pre- puce, concealed under the fold, resist a local and internal treatment; 4th. When these ulcerations are numerous and extensive; 5 th. When they occupy the circumference of the prepuce, and produce deep fissures; 6th. When after two or three weeks treatment, they still give out an abundant suppuration, ex- coriating the parts it touches; 7th. When there is reason to believe that the matter collected between the glans and prepuce maintains the ulcerations, or renders them phage- denic. This is known by the constant pain ex- perienced by the patient, by the swelling of the penis, and the pus being extremely purulent and fetid. The operation of circumcision is performed in the following cases :— 1st. When the prepuce is very long, pointed, and the opening narrow; 2d. When the circumference of the opening is covered with ulcers; 3d. When there are vegetations or fissures on