i08 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



vent stagnation or accumulation of blood in the parts, to -which there is often 

 considerable tendency. 



8. Gonorrhea, the Great French Eamedy for.— In Gunn's " New 

 Family Physician " we find the following, which he says is known as the 

 " Great French Remedy for Gonorrhea " in any stage of the disease, and said 

 '-o be infallible, without any other medicine: 



" Take J^ oz. each of dragon's blood — to be found at the druggists' — pul- 

 verized colocynth and pulverized gamboge; pulverize (better buy the pulverized 

 article if you can) and rub these three articles together in a mortar; then add J^ 

 pint boiling water (rain or soft water preferable) and stir occasionally for an 

 Qour with the pestle; then add 2 ozs. each of sweet spirits of nitre and balsam 

 copaiba, and stir again till well mixed; then bottle for use. Dose — Two tea- 

 spoonfuls night and morning until it operates thoroughly on the bowels ; then 1 

 tea-spoonful 2 or 3 times a day, or sufficient to keep up a gentle action on the 

 bowels, and continue until a cure is affected. " 



9. Gonorrhea in Its Commencement— Cure Without Injec- 

 tion. — After having written the above, I went to my dinner, and on my return 

 found my Medical Brief had been delivered, and, on looking it over, was struck 

 at the simplicity of a recipe for gonorrhea, given in answer to an inquiry for 

 such a cure, by Dr. Hall, of Fairmount, Ga., as follows: 



"Spirits nit. dulc. (sweet spirits of nitre), 1 oz. ; balsam of copaiba and 

 tinct. of mur. ferri (tinct. of muriate of iron), of each, 1 dr. Mix. Dose — 

 A tea-spoonful in water, milk or wine (I would say in some of the mucilages 

 before mentioned) given every few days, 4 to 6 hours apart. No injections needed 

 in incipient (the beginning of) gonorrhea." 



Remarks. — He uses the same in ardor urinae (scalding, or heat in passing 

 urine) with like success; but in this last condition he gives the same dose, 

 repeating in 3 hours, then at longer intervals. From my knowledge of the 

 properties of the article, I recommend a trial, at once, wherever and whenever 

 needed, in either disease. But as some persons will not begin any treatment at 

 once, as they ought to do, letting the disease become chronic, or by mismanage- 

 fnent or carelessness in taking medicine, or by persisting in the use of spirits, 

 '"at meats, etc., a gleet, or slight discharge, will continue from the urethra after 

 ;he inflammatory condition has been subdued. Such a condition will require 

 something of the character given for gleet, after the next item. 



10. Gonorrhea, the Latest and Most Simple Treatment for.— 

 Some time after all the foregoing had been written, upon this subject, the 

 December number of my T/ir.rapeutic Gazette, of Detroit, Mich., came to hand, 

 with a treatment for this disease, from Dr. Joseph McChesney, surgeon of the 

 Atcliison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Co., at Deming, N. M., which appears 

 so simple and easy of trial, and withal so effectual (he reporting a number of 

 cures in from 6 to 10 days, and some of them of long standing), that 

 I feel constrained to give it, believing it to be as effectual as it is 

 simple. It is as follows: Dissolve corrosive sublimate, 1 gr. only, in water, 6 

 ozs., injecting a syringe of it every 4 hours. 



