Practical observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea virulenta in men / by Thomas Whately, member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

  • Whately, Thomas, -1821.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Practical observations on the cure of the gonorrhoea virulenta in men / by Thomas Whately, member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the cure of the gonorrhoea; but I trusty that in the course of this essay, it will be proved to the satisfaction of my readers^ that mercury^ by means of it's circulation in the bloody will les- son the discharge, and remove all the symptoms of a virulent gonorrhoea; as the cbordee, ardor urinEBj «&c.; and that in some cases it will effect an entire cure^, with as much certainty and cele- rity^ as if the disease v/ere a chancre or a bubo. So that the system^ founded on the opinion that the virus of this disease is altogether different from the venereal virus, cannot^ I thinks receive any support^ from what ifs advocates have ad- vanced against this remedy. On this subject Mr. Bell argues as follows: —^' As a further support of this opinion, I may ^^ add^ that if the two diseases were of the same '' nature, and produced by the same infection, '' the remedies proving useful in the one, might be expected to prove so likewise in the other. '^ Instead of this, we find that those upon whic^ '' we depend with most certainty in the gonor- rhoea, have no effect whatever in the cure of syphilis. While mercury, which is the only '^ remedy, as we have observed above, upon ** which any dependance can be placed for the '' cure of syphilis, does not in gonorrhoea pro- '' duce any advantage. Nay, that in some