A Discussion of
gonorhea, its symptoms and treatment.
Although many diseases of the parts of procreation exist,
I am going to focus upon one of the most common, and one of the most
deadly.
The first is gonorhea, often known as the clap.
I shall here describe typical symptoms of the disease, other
similar ailments, and methods of exacting a cure.
The illness can be recognized by a discharge from the
penis of a yellow or green substance, along with pain when passing
water, with a burning sensation accompanying.
Women may also experience such evacuations, but this is
not always the case.
The gestation period for gonorhea virulenta is
uncertain, as symptoms may appear within hours of impure coition, but
sometimes not for weeks afterward.
In most cases, however, the disease shall make itself known
between the third and eighth day following.
The discharge itself will vary, in some patients
appearing white, in others yellow, green, or brown.
If the urethra has been damaged, there may be red, indicating
blood.
The color of the discharge can also be used to determine
the strength and virulence of the illness.
It is widely believed that the disease will prove brief if the
running is white or yellow, but if it is green or tinged with blood, the
patient will labour under it for some time.
A patient must be wary to immediately consider impure
coition when observing a discharge.
Gonorhea simplex, another strain of the disease, presents
very similar symptoms to gonorhea virulenta, and is not spread
through sexual means.
The best cure in these cases is to wash the parts with
Goulard’s extract [lead] and water, and to sometimes throw up[inject
into the urethra] a diluted concentrate of the same.
Many make the mistake with the clap of assuming that
mercury should be applied, with the idea that quicksilver can cure all
venereal woes.
Treatment of gonorhea can be affected with without the use of the
specific, however, and I recommend the following treatment instead:
Combine an ounce of white vitriol [a caustic, acidic
substance] in four ounces of water, and then add a tea-spoon of this to
a tea-cup’s worth of water.
Of this, the patient should throw up two or three small syringe-fuls,
five or six times a day, holding in the injection for some time by
clenching the head of the penis with his hand.
Generally, the entirety of this solution is not needed,
and the patient is cured after half of the medicine is used.
With nearly equal efficiency, Goulard’s Extract may be applied
in the same way, although I offer some hesitation for the use of lead
internally.
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