A Practical Treatise on Venereal Diseases; Or, Critical and Experimental Researches on Inoculation, Applied to the Study of These Affections, with a (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...6th. The inoculated pustule is entirely destroyed by the cauteriza tion of July 18th. The blenorrhcea runs less; cubebs are given in doses of for drachms, and the injections are continued. 30th. The bubo is cauterized with the nitrate of silver, and some parts of it seem disposed to heal. Sept. 2d. The blenorrhoea is cured; the cubebs are continued; the injections stopped. The centre of the bubo, which is now healing, is again cauterized, and on the 9th the patient is discharged cured. CASt-3 XVIII. Chancre, bubo on the right and left sides; thaton the right, sympathetic, and unsuccessful after inoculation; that on the left, symptomatic, and yielding the characteristic pustule on inoculation. No, aged 18, entered Jan. 17, 1837. This patient could not precisely determine when he contracted a chancre on the inner and upper part of the prepuce, but thought it was about six weeks before entering. Twenty days since, two buboes appeared, one on the right side, which appeared to be situated in the deeper ganglions, and had only suppurated at the summit; the other on the left, suppurated in its whole extent, and only affecting the superficial ganglions. Now the chancre had cicatrized; both buboes were opened, and the pus from the right bubo was ihoculated on the right thigh, and that of the left on the left thigh. After the evacuation of the pus, the left bubo nearly disappeared; on the right, the tumor still remained large; to promote its resolution, the ung. mercur. was prescribed for the next day. Cataplasms were applied to the left side. 20th. None of the inoculations had taken; but in the right bubo, to which the ung. mercur. had not been applied, the edges of the incision were not ulcerated; whilst that made in the left bubo had become...