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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    dlflike to diforder the conftitution by mercury would probably lead him even to ufe it more freely than might be abfolutely neceffary: this he would do in cafes clearly fyphilitic, in order to prevent the poffibility of the re- currence of difeafe, and a repetition of a mer- curial courfe. In doubtful cafes, w4iich are cured by exciting the mercurial a6iion in the conftitution, he would adopt a iimilar mode of treatment, in order to fupprefs the dif- eafe for fo long a time as to make it lefs likely to recur; or if any fubfcquent difeafe fhould take place, to render it highly pro- bable that this was not fyphilitic, fince it had broken out after fuch a courfe of mercury as muft be conlidered to be adequate to the cure of almoft any difeafe of that nature. By undertaking this tafk I (hall perhaps com- ply with the wifhes of my other friends, in ftating more explicitly the circumftances which fhould induce a furgeon immediately to ufe or abftain from the adminiftration of mercury, and, at the fame time, contri- bute my mite of obfervation to thofe al^ ready offered on this ftill obfcure fubjeft of venereal difeafes. The