A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhea--vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph.

  • Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)
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[1840]
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Credit: A private treatise on venereal disease, in two parts : the first on gonorrhea--vulgarly called clap, the second on venereal, properly so called : adapted to the use of every one, but more especially designed for those who are delicately circumstanced and require a private as well as a speedy cure / by Joseph Ralph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the cure of this affection, the first thing to he recommended (when it can be done) is rest, and resting on a bed is preferable to any other. The next, to support the testicles by means of a suspen- sory bandage.—If you have not this at hand, it may easily be contrived.—Make a bag of soft linen, large enough to hold the swollen parts, and then sew or pin it to a bandage or pocket-handkerchief round the body. If the testicle is suffered to hang by its own weight, this alone will prevent its cure and greatly augment the pain.—Next, take 5 or G purga- tive pills.—frequent and repeated purging is a pow- erful means of relieving this disease, and this may be followed up either by repeating the pills, or doses of Epsom salts. Lotions also are of great use, and the best of all is the common evaporating spirit Lotion;—it is made by mixing one part of brandy to two of water, and applied by keeping a soft rag and the suspensory bandage constantly wetted with it. Bleeding by leeches is exceedingly useful where the pain and inflammation are great, but many per- sons are placed in such circumstances as not to ad- mit of their use. There is however, another way of taking blood from the part which might be re- sorted to in very urgent cases, or might be practised at sea, where leeches are not always to be had ;—it is as follows.—Stand before a warm fire and pull up the scrotum so as to put the skin on the stretch,— vou will then see several veins cf a blue color:— Take a lancet or very sharp pointed pen-knife and