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Selections from the Works of Abraham Colles; Consisting Chiefly of His Practical Observations on the Venereal Disease, and on the Use of Mercury

Selections from the Works of Abraham Colles; Consisting Chiefly of His Practical Observations on the Venereal Disease, and on the Use of Mercury

          
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1881. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... under the influence of the mercury. Should we hare employed the same test in a case of purely constitutional indolent bubo, we shall find, on the contrary, that no amendment takes place within the first six or eight days, but that, even when the mercury acts on the mouth, the symptoms are rather aggravated. This plan of employing those minute doses of mercury can, therefore, lay claim to the double merit of being the most speedy as well as the safest method of treating all venereal symptoms, whether primary or secondary, when attended with hectic fever; and also of affording the most certain and the only safe criterion by which we can decide in doubtful cases, which are attended with hectic, whether the disease be venereal or not. Were we to employ, as a test, mercury in doses such as are employed ordinarily in the treatment of the venereal disease, we should inevitably injure the patient, and at the same time we should not obtain the smallest insight into the nature of the disease; for mercury used in such doses, with a patient in this state of debility and hectic fever, would rather overpower the system than produce any improvement in the venereal symptoms. One word more on the subject of these buboes and their accompanying symptoms. Here is a modification of symptoms of syphilis and its consequences, which we are utterly at a loss to account for; the natural habit and previous state of health will not explain it; nor do we acquire any real insight into the cause by referring it to the treatment of the primary symptoms; for in one of the cases I have related mercury was used in full doses, and for a very sufficient length of time, while in the other no mercury at all was employed. And I recollect other cases in which the patients used only a few mercurial pill...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150482694
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 285 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1150482699
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm

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