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PHILIS, OR THE SECOND FORM OF THE YENEREAL 
_ This form of the disease appears externally, in eruptions or 
ee about the genitals. ‘There are several species of this 
ass he chancre and bubo are a sort of intermediate stage be- 
tween the clap ard syphilis, and show that the poison is yet in agrea 
measure confined to those parts When the poison becomes a 
through the system, and the fluids corrupted, it breaks out in red- — 
dish, brownish, or ‘copper-colored spots over different parts of the 
body ; or swellings in the glands of the neck, ulcers in the throat, — 
and finally large fetid ulcers, discharging much foul matter. 4 no- 
tha apoqbout tant ie most terrible, is the phagedenic, or eating anc 
sloughing kind. ‘This exhibits a corroding and malignant appear- 
ance, and spreads sometimes with rapidity, causing the most de- 
structive havoc in the course of a few days. It more freque: 
attacks the glans penis, and foreskin, and often totally destroys them, 
under the common mode of treatment. There are several other con» 
sequences ahd appearances of this disease, many of which are the 
effects of mercury, which I shall particularize in their place. = 
The reader will-understand, that neither in any shape of this or 
any other disease, has the author ever found mercury necessary ; or 
any indication which may not equally well; or far bette ry be re 
by other means. It isurgéed however, that “ mercury, when employed __ 
‘ith propriety, is one of the most useful and powerful instruments _ 
in the hands of the profession.” But what guarantee have we that it 
‘witl be used with “ propriety 7” Or what is the standard, of “ propriety” 
when we see it used indiscriminately in almost every disea 
this enlightened age of physic? When we look around us.and behold 
the multitudes of broken and ruined constitutions, entailing lives 
of debility and misery-upon our fellow beings, and which we can 
trace to the use of this death-dealing mineral, (though even in these | 
cases, perhaps it was used with as much propriety as it could be,) it 
ames Us, as possessing humanity, seriously to find out a substitute. 
Such substitutes, the Almighty in his protecting cave, has caused to 
g7ow in almost every land, and they are ready to the hand-of« rer 
man who is disposed to seek them out and use them.—Shor 
not then, at once dispense altogether with so unnatural a remedy, the 
operation of which is to overcome disease by the creation of a 
or? Let us no longer incur guilt, or disclose our ignorance, by 
countenaneing the use of a mincral so incompatible with the health © 
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But I have digressed from’ my subject ; suffice it to say; that in- - 
stead of mercury asa general remedy in all the above forms of the 
venereal disease, I substitute my- enti-mereurial syrup, which not 
only cures with greater certainty, but leaves the patient free fr 
‘the distressing effects, so common from the use of the former. ~ 
x —is an ulcer, with a thickened base, little inflamm: 
disposition to heal. It generally appears on the 
e glans, and in women 2bout the nymphe, and 
Sup the vagnia. It makes its appearance eit 
