oe CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
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Or. 2. FON PIR ME D. OU ES, 
THE fymptoms of a confirmed lues are, buboes in the groin, pains of the head 
and joints, which are peculiarly troublefome in the night, or when the patient is 
warm in bed; fcabs and fcurfs in various parts of the body, efpecially on the head, 
of a yellowith colour, refembling ashoney-comb; corroding ulcers in various parts 
of the body, which generally begin about the throat, from whence they creep gta- 
dually, by the palate, towards the cartilage of the nofe, which they deftroy; excref- 
cences or exoltofes arife i in the middle of the bones, and their fpongy ends become 
brittle, and break upon the leaft accident ; at other times, . they are foft, and bend 
hike wax; the conglobate glands become hard and callous, and form, in the neck, 
armpits, groin, and menfentery, hard moveable tumours, like the king’s evil; tu- 
 mours of different kinds are likewife formed in the lymphatic veffels, tendons, 
ligaments, and nerves, as the gummata, ganglia, nodes, tophs, 8c. the eyes are 
affected with itching, pain, rednefs, and fometimes with total blindnefs, and the 
ears with a finging noifé, pain, and deafnefs, whilft their internal fubftance is exul- 
cerated and rendered carious; at length all the animal, vital, and natural, func- 
tions, are depraved; the face becomes pale and livid; the body emaciated and 
unfit for motion, and the miferable patient falls into an atrophy or wafting confump- 
gon. Women have {ymptoms peculiar to the fex; as cancers of the-breaft, a fup- 
preffion or-overflowing of the menfes, the whites, hyfteric affeétions, an inflamma- 
tion, abfcefs, fcirrhus, gangrene, cancer, or ulcer, of the womb; they are generally 
_ either barren or fubjeét to abortion; or, if they bring children into-the world, | 
they have an univerfal eryfipelas, are half rotten, and covered with ulcers. Suchi is 
_« the catalogue of fymptoms attending this dreadful difeafe in its confirmed ftate. 
_ Indeed they are feldom to be met with in the fame perfon, or at the fame time; fo 
‘many of them, however, are generally prefent as are fufficient to alarm the patient; _ 
‘° and, if he has reafon tofufpect the infection i is lurking in his body, he ought i me 
mediately to fet about-the expulfion of it, otherwife the moft tragical confequences 
will er ne. The only certain remedy hitherto known in Europe, for the cure of 
this dif : xf is mercury, which may be ufed in a great variety of forms, with nearly 
the fame fuccefs.. Some time ago it was reckoned impoffible to cure a confirmed — 
lues without a fa ivation ; this method is now, however, pretty generally laid afide, 
and mercury is found-to be as efficacious, or rather more fo, in expelling the vene- 
real poifon, when adminiftered i in fuch a manner as not to run off by the falivary 
glands. The only chemica | preparation of mercury which we Shall take notice of 
: is thie Sorrotine AIRE ‘This was fome time ago brought into ufe for the vene- 
‘real difeafe in Germany, ‘by ee Baron Yan Swicten; and was foon after’ 
I introduced ~ 
