72 Dr. Hancock on Sarsaparillm. 



suddenly stopped, and the patient has been exposed to cold and 

 moisture. 



This species of rheumatism, from suppressed gonorrhoea, is 

 so common an occurrence in Venezuela, that it usually takes the 

 name of galico, (i. e. venereal) ; and as most rheumatic affec- 

 tions are there referred to this cause, we rarely hear it spoken of 

 under any other title. 



The true goiiorrhceal rheumatism, however, makes its attack 

 upon the muscles, the ligaments, and even the periosteum of 

 the bones, soon after the discharge disappears. The joints are 

 rendered immoveable ; all the limbs, the spine, hips, and shoul- 

 ders, suffer excruciating pain ; after a time, these symptoms are 

 followed by tophi upon the tibia, os frontis and bones of the 

 fore arm, and the patient, if not timely relieved, becomes quite 

 crippled and emaciated. 



Whatever obloquy may arise from an avowal of our own mis- 

 fortunes, the paramount objects of truth and candour compel me 

 to say, that such as just described was my own case during 

 several months of the year 1814 ; and that, after a full, but 

 ineffectual trial of mercury, and the usual European remedies, 

 I was entirely restored to health, by taking a single botejuela or 

 small jug of the Jarave del Rey. 



Having been long a convert to some of the exploded or 

 unfashionable doctrines of the humoral pathology, it may 

 readily be believed, that my faith was not diminished by consi- 

 dering the striking translations of disease, from one part to 

 another, so apparent in the foregoing, and in numerous other 

 cases equally convincing. 



They also satisfy me, that, in certain cases at least, and these 

 more frequent than is commonly imagined, secondary symptoms 

 follow gonorrhoea as well as syphilis ; and, when added to the 

 observations of the army surgeons, (as to gonorrhoea producing 

 chancre, and chancre gonorrhoea), they tend to establish the 

 identity of these diseases. 



The Spaniards, I may observe, by the term reumalismo, seem 



