A complete treatise, on the origin, theory, and cure of the lues venerea : and obstructions in the urethra, illustrated by a great variety of cases : being a course of twenty-three lectures, read in Dean-Stret [sic], Soho, in the years 1790 and 1791 / by Jesse Foot, surgeon.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A complete treatise, on the origin, theory, and cure of the lues venerea : and obstructions in the urethra, illustrated by a great variety of cases : being a course of twenty-three lectures, read in Dean-Stret [sic], Soho, in the years 1790 and 1791 / by Jesse Foot, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    strong is the resistance of these parts against the aftion of the disease, that it will be found afting on them a longtime, and yet by mercury the parts may and can be again restored to a sound state. This is that stage of the cure, which I shall first commence to treat on. At the commencement of the cure for at least the first six weeks, the mode to be adopted should be an intermedi- ate one between the alterative and the decisive and more ef- fectual mode: mercury should be gradually insinuated for six weeks, and the warm bath should be used twice a week. The patient should keep within doors, but not to his cham- ber : and for the ensuing six weeks, the process of mercu- ry should be so advanced, and so supported, as to keep up constantly the mercurial change, and this should be conti- nued almost a month after the venereal symptoms have been eliminated. The patient may take on opiate every night, and if he pleases, he may drink decodtion of sarsa through the day. By this method, many of these venereal attacks have been cured, purely owing to the addon of mercury being decisive, and owing to its being continued long enough for procuring all its effedh All the cases, the symptoms of which yield to mercury, may thus be cured and although they may return again and again, by mercury not being sufficiently persevered in, yet it must not be forgotten, that since mercury has once relieved the parts from the ve- nereal