Syphilis and local contagious disorders

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Smith, Elder, 1881 - 636 páginas

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Página 467 - report above referred to). In larger doses it is debilitating or fatal. 6. Mercury in small doses is a tonic (for a time at least, as long as the experiments lasted,) to individuals in fair health, not syphilitic. In such individuals it increases the number of the red blood-corpuscles.
Página 8 - these be they that corrupt the whole generation of mankind in your realm ; that catch pockes of one woman and bear them to another ; that be burnt with one woman and bear it to another ; that catch the lepry of one woman and bear it to another.
Página 59 - infant (although its mouth be ulcerated), suckled by its own mother, »had produced ulcération of her breast ; whereas very few instances have occurred •where a syphilitic infant had not infected a strange or hired wet-nurse who had been previously in good health.
Página 8 - pockes of one woman and bear them to another ; that be burnt with one woman and bear it to another ; that catch the lepry of one woman and bear it to another.
Página 550 - If the patient is a man he should be directed to support the penis in a suspensory bandage or handkerchief against the abdomen, never to let it hang down, and to be particular that the dress is loose enough not to chafe the parts in walking,
Página 551 - As chancres may excite bubo at any period of their existence, destruction of their surface with caustic may prevent this consequence whenever it is employed. Still this advantage, is not sufficient in practice to require the invariable use of caustics, as the
Página 511 - Mercury applied externally to children is less likely to cause diarrhoea than when given internally. It may be done by spreading fifteen to thirty grains of mercurial ointment diluted with its weight of lard or vaseline on a piece of flannel which the child wears constantly round his waist. The ointment should be renewed on the flannel
Página 551 - two to one, even when left to run its course. Besides this, it is often exceedingly difficult to destroy several sores thoroughly by one application of caustic ; hence the patient, after having undergone all the suffering and inconvenience of
Página 475 - as it is ill adapted for producing the requisite effect of mercury quickly, for if taken in sufficiently large doses to produce tenderness of the gums, it is apt to irritate the bowels. Hence it is better suited to the later forms of the disease where the action of mercury is required only to a slight degree. A useful mode of giving

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