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Title: A treatise on gonorrhoea and syphilis
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Durkee, Silas Parry, John S., 1843-1876, former owner. DNLM
Subjects: Gonorrhea Syphilis
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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ometimes provesefficacious. The submuriate of mercury, sprinkled upon theseabnormal appendages once in the twenty-four hours, will accom-plish their destruction in a satisfactory manner; and where thedisease exists in young children, and where the application canbe made without inconvenience, it is to be preferred to all otherlocal means. Before employing it, the tubercles should bethoroughly cleansed with chlorinated water, and wiped dry. Constitutional Treatment. — The bichloride of mercury,to the amount of one-eighth or one-tenth of a grain, twice aday, may be prescribed for an adult affected with this varietyof tubercles. The salt should be continued until its specific effects beginto display themselves; after which it will be advisable to substi-tute the iodide of potassium. In conjunction with the mercu-rial treatment, a tonic course will, in most cases, be requisite.The tincture of the muriate of iron, or the potassio-tartrate ofiron, and a generous diet, will be appropriate.
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Pustular Syphilis CHAPTER XXXI. SYPHILITIC PUSTULES. The pustulae may be considered as forming the third link inthe metamorphic development of the syphilides. The papuleis usually but the prelude of the tubercle. The pustule isengrafted upon the tubercle, and the ulcer appears next afterthe pustule. Such is the order of succession in most cases, butnot in all. The normal series may be broken by the course oftreatment, and by other intercurrent circumstances ; so that wearc unable to say whether the vis medicatrix nalurce would pur-sue, in all cases, an undeviating method in this strange work ofdevelopment, which is neither more nor less than the result ofthe various surgical experiments which nature institutes in herown self-defence. The syphilitic pustule is formed upon the summit of thetubercle, which softens at this point, while the part that reposesupon or within the derma may remain unchanged. Thus thepustule will sometimes linger upon an indurated base for manyweeks, and will yi

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