. A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female ... ther, a few grains of calomelproduces salivation ; while there are a few whose idiosyncrasies seem to forbid theuse of mercury altogether. Prejudices may also oppose its administration ; but theywho have exposed themselves to the action of the syphilitic poison, ought not to ob-ject to any other which may be necessary as an antidote. The use of mercurial ointment as a local application to chancres, or that of anygreasy substances, is to be s
. A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female ... ther, a few grains of calomelproduces salivation ; while there are a few whose idiosyncrasies seem to forbid theuse of mercury altogether. Prejudices may also oppose its administration ; but theywho have exposed themselves to the action of the syphilitic poison, ought not to ob-ject to any other which may be necessary as an antidote. The use of mercurial ointment as a local application to chancres, or that of anygreasy substances, is to be strictly proscribed. Simple poultices and fomentations, withthe dressings of aromatic wine, and an aqueous solution of opium, when indicatedby the pain ; the black and yellow wash, or a solution of bichloride of mercury, arethe best local applications that can be used, except the cauterizations, as beforementioned. As the state of the system may influence the forms which chancres are liable totake on, this cannot be too soon attended to. A full habit, and excesses in eatingor drinking, may produce violent inflammation, tending to gangrene. In such a.
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