An essay on the gonorrhoea : with some observations on the use of opium, in the cure of that disease / by William Thomas.

  • Thomas, William.
Date:
1780
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Credit: An essay on the gonorrhoea : with some observations on the use of opium, in the cure of that disease / by William Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taught us to believe, we have made no further progrefs in the cure, that this is the only advan- tage gained, but is it not worth enquiring whe- ther the venereal virus is not likewife deftroyed at the the fame time the inflammation is, tho* fome flight difeharge does continue. Is it not very probable, that as the inflamma- tory fymptoms are allayed, that the caufe from which they originated and on which they chiefly depended is removed, and that the flight dil- charge may be now from fome other caufe j that cither from the natural debility of the habit, the elfed of a long unnelTary profecution of internal medicine, and from the urethra having fuffered much from ftimulus and inflammation, the parts are unable inftantly to recover their tone, and thelucunae ftill'continue to emit a greater quan- tity of their Iccretion than they naturally Ihould do. We frequently find that in ftrong habits, where the feerctions are thick, and the parts arc able to recover themfelves loon, that nor the lead difeharge remains in a very few hours after the inflammatory fymptoms have difappeared, the patient is always judged to be well, and any longer continuance of mercury is thought unne- ceffary: But in weak debilitated habits fome running moll frequently remains' either more or lefs, after the irritation and inflammation are quite gone; and though they fliould have lafled five or fix weeks, calomel or fome other mer- curial preparation is always thought necef- farv,