_Of the Venereal Disease_
I have written and published a full treatise of this disease; divided in
three parts; namely, I. An anatomical and physiological description of
the genital parts of both sexes. II. An ætiological enquiry in the
various stages of this disease. III. A true and rational method of cure.
Nevertheless I shall here concisely give a safe method of the cure, in
its various local degrees. But to those who would wish to know more
circumstantial the true nature of that malady, and of the animal
œconomy, I must refer to the above treatise.
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,