The venereal disease may be considered in different degrees; namely the first and second infection.
To the first, I consider the gonorrhœa or clap, the phimosis, paraphimosis, chordee, priapism, shankers, dysuria, bubo, swelled testicles, and venereal excrescences, in their various degrees, in a local state. To the second infection, I consider those diseases that proceed from the venereal virus, infecting the whole mass of blood; namely cutaneous diseases; glandular diseases; diseases of the bones; dry pox; and the confirmed lues itself.
The first infection is what I shall here briefly consider, and give such remedies, which though simple and few, will prove efficacious. But the second I shall here only consider in the general.
Of the Gonorrhœa.
The gonorrhœa or clap, commences with an agreeable tickling in the urethra, attended with a thin limpid ouzing, which however soon degenerates into a disagreeable pain. A discharge of sharp fœtid matter, gradually commences with a scalding of urine; the præpuce and glans sometimes swells, with inflammation and a painful involuntary erection, which adds considerable pain to the patient, and under which, the whole system seem disordered.
When all these symptoms appear, there is no room left to doubt a confirmed clap.
The first thing to be done, is to take some of the fever powders (L) in order to promote a perspiration, and to abate the scalding of the urine.
In the next place, and which is the principal object; have immediate recourse to my antacrid injection, which is simply this,
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Take clean water one ounce, Calomel (N) one scruple, Mix it, and shake it when it is made use of.