A Patient's History of Strain of the Valves of his Heart
Authors: J. Russell
Journal: BMJ (1879)

THE BRITISH MEDICAL 7OURNAL.83 night, unguentum simplex.Internally, he took chlorate of potash, quinine, and Dover's powder.In October I868, he was in good health.In March I87I, he was in excellent health.In I878, he was in good health, and still in the service.CASE vi.-F.G., aged 26, was twenty-six days in hospital for pri.mary sore, with inflamed glands, which did not suppurate.He had a papular eruption over the whole body, and ulceration of the tonsils.He lost all the hair on his head and face.He was treated in September i868.In May I869, there was no trace whatever of the disease.He was in good health when discharged the service in I871 ; his hair had all grown again.Chlorate of potash and Dover's powder were the re- medies employed.CASE viI.-G.C., aged 20, had Hunterian chancre, with indurated glands on both sides, and roseolar and papular rash.He was treated, in August i868, for phimosis, complicated to such an extent that cir- cumcision was necessitated.Alum and carbolic acid were used locally, and iodide of potassium and Dover's powder internally.In December i868, his health was good.In June I869, he had not a trace of the disease about him.In March 187I, he was in excellent health.There was a very fine white cicatricial line on the prepuce.CASE viii.-H.C., aged 26, was treated in November i869.He was in good health in Jamaica in I871.In I878, I was informed that he was married and the father of two healthy children.CASE ix.-I.J., aged 22, was treated in December I869.In Janu- ary I87I, his health was fair.In May I87I, his health was good.In 1878, he was in good health, and the father of two healthy children.CASE x.-J.R., aged I9, was treated in January I869.In January i870, his health was good.In March x87I, he was in good health, and was so when discharged the service.The above are examples of cases treated without any mercury.Many others of a similar character passed through my hands; but it is my desire that not only such, but examples of a number in which mercury was locally applied, should be given; because my position is sustained not only by several individual cases such as those narrated, but by the very satisfactory eventual results of all the cases treated by me between 1865 and I876; and, in order that I may be justified in bringing forward this toztt ensemble of my practice as a proof of the curability of syphilis without mercury, I am bound to give examples of those cases in which the mineral was locally applied.CASE xi.-N.G., aged 26, had extensive ulceration in, and sur- rounded by, cartilaginous induration.The inguinal glands were en- larged.He had roseola and pharyngeal ulceration.Lotio nigra was used in this case.He was treated in October i868.In March I869, he was in good health.In April I870, he had remittent fever, but was discharged in good health in May.In March I87I, he was in excellent health; and in I877 was still in the service and in good health.CASE xii.-O.C., aged 23, had a circular solitary indurated ulcer, enlarged inguinal glands, roseolar and papular rash over the whole body, and mucous tubercles on the inside of the thighs; the scrotum was covered by an eruption of papules.On several parts of the body, small gangrenous ulcers appeared; and he had pharyngeal ulceration.The only mercurial preparation used was lotio nigra, and that only for a period not exceeding seven days.He was treated in October I867.In March i868, he was in fair health.In May i868, he looked well and felt so.Not a trace of disease was manifest, excepting some slight coppery patches on the inside of the thighs.In May I87I, he was in excellent health, and was in good health when discharged in 1874.CASE xiii.-P.M., aged 25, had indurated sores, indurated glands in the right groin, and roseola.Lotio nigra was used for a few days, and the only other drug employed was spirit of nitrous ether in camphor mixture.He was treated in February i866.In May I866, he had scarcely a trace of disease about him.He was in good health when he deserted in I869.CASE xiv.-Q.L., aged 26, had an excavated hard chancre, four en- larged glands in the left groin, a roseolar and papular eruption, and con- dylomata of the nates.Lotio nigra was used for a few days, when water- dressing was substituted.He was treated in April i868, and made a rapid recovery.In June i869, he was in vigorous health, with no evi- dence whatever of disease about him.In March I87I, he was in ex- cellent health.In I878, he was in the service and in good health.CASE xv.-R.F., aged 23, had a chancre in great cartilaginous in- duration; the inguinal glands on both sides were enlarged and hard.He had an eruption over the whole body of a roseolar, papular, and squamous character ; and tonsillar ulceration.Lotio nigra was used for a few days.IHe was treated in February I870.In June I870, he was in good health.In September 187I, he was in very good health.He was in good health when discharged the service in I876.CASE xvi.-S.N., aged 22, had a circular hard sore, indurated glands, and macular rash.Lotio nigra was used.He was treated in