Surgical observations on diseases resembling syphilis : and on diseases of the urethra / by John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Surgical observations on diseases resembling syphilis : and on diseases of the urethra / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    nexion, four fores which formed upon the under furface of the labia pudendi, two on each fide. Thefe fores were very irritable, and becarne larger than a fixpence, and of an oval form. They threw forth exuberant flefh of a livid hue, were very tender, and had a great deal of inflammation furroundingthem. Various dreflings were employed without amending them, and after a month had clapfed I was induced to recommend from lo to 15 grains of the pil. hydrarg. to be taken daily. After another fortnight, as no, amendment was perceived, and the mouth was not affefted by the medicine, the patient rubbed in 2 drachms, by meafure, of mercurial ointment every fecond night. A fecond fort- night elapfed without any amendment in the fores, though the mouth was flightly affected. At this time the uneafinefs of the patient and her friend induced me to delire they would confult another furgeon, who thought the fores fyphilitic, and wifhed that the quantity of mercury (hould be increafed, fo as more decidedly to afFeft the mouth. In confe- quence of this confultation, the patient rub* bed in the fame quantity of mercurial oint- ment