BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
small pimple or pustule, filled with a whitish fluid, which soon breaks 
and becomes a spreading ulcer. This comes on, in from six daysto _ 
several weeks. They are exceedingly painful. 
In order to cure chancres, cleanliness is very requisite. It should 
be washed as often as any matter collects, or four or five times 
day, with warm water, to prevent the absorption and generation of 
- the poison. After washing, I usually sprinkle on a powder of — 
- » .marsh-rosemary roots, or of burnt leather pulverized. This, with 
the use of the syrup, disposes it to heal kindly. It may be useful 
also, to wash the sore with a solution of white vitriol, &c. or if very 
painful, to foment it with a solution of opium, or a decoction of pop 
pies. I have also used as a wash for this and all foul ulcers, ad ec 
_ €oction of witch-hazle bark, with great success ; and when there is 
any foul or ugly flesh, I apply the green salve, which takes it all — 
out, and prepares it for healing. The chancre, when mismanaged, 
often terminates in an eating ulcer. a ee 
_ A Bubo—happens when the venereal matter is collected or seere- 
ted in the glands of the groin, which, in a measure, intercept its 
e into the system, whereby the groin becomes indurated, 
swelled, and inflamed—producing a bubo. It first comes on with 
in in the groin, and hardness and swelling, which continuing to 
increase, at length becomes as large as an egg, throbs, reddens, and 
occasions difficulty in walking. In some cases the suppuration 
quickly completed ; in others very slow ; and in others again it goes — 
off slowly without any formation of pus. In a few instances the 
ds become schirrus. ‘ 1s 
r swellings of the groin, as rupture, aneurism, abscess, &¢-, — 
_ May be mistaken for bubo, unless the cause is inquired into. 
_. A bubo is never attended with danger when it proceeds on regu- 
9 suppuration, which is the most desirable termination; buts» 
y cases it acquires an indolence after coming to acertain B 
it may terminate in an eating ulcer. 
oe ‘When the penis is inflaméd, or has ugly sores upon it, and there 
_ 48 an appearance of a buby, we should endeavor to bring it to sup> 
puration quickly, with drawing poultices continually applied warms 
as a discharge in the groin draws off the matter from the other parts 
and soon runs ont the disease. But, as a bubo is very inconveniem 
_ ifit is not very necessary that it should be brought to a suppuration, 
may attempt to disperse it in its commencement ; and this I 
ally do with the application of my anodyne. wash, ot alum 
ith these, or similar applications, it does not disperse 
, as above, to bring it to a head, and as soon as it is fit 
it should be Janced. After it is open it should be kept as clean 
ble, and from the air, and suffered to run. If fungous flesh 
apply the green salve, and it will heal up.as Soon as proper- — 
if a bubo, becomes indolent, and. will neither d ' 
