What do YOU use to treat your syphillis?

[GuntherHess]

I recently got this interesting little bottle from a forum member. It is a label only bottle from Pyle & Brother in Brooklyn. You can see the prescription was hand written as Quicksilver. Mercury was most commonly used in the 19th century as a treatment for syphilllis. The common saying was "spend one night on Venus and spend the rest of your life on Mercury" [] The bottle was found in the wall of an old apartment building. It appears to be flint glass and smooth base with a crude lip. I believe it was made during the 1860s. The cork has a wax seal from the company on the top.

 

[GuntherHess]

cork seal...

 

[GuntherHess]

bottom...

 

[GuntherHess]

1864 ad...note the well known list of distributors...
The brothers were J Lindley Pyle (died 1866) and Cyrus Pyle

 

[glass man]

Now that is interesting! AND NO DOUBT PAINFUL! GUTH DID THIS STUFF WORK AT ALL ,EVEN SLOW IT DOWN?I KNOW HITLER WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE SYPHILLIS AND HE WAS IN THE 1930s-40s WITH IT AND IF HE HAD IT WOULD THINK HE WOULD HAVE USED THIS TO KNOCK IT OUT ,IF IT WORKED.

 

[GuntherHess]

It was apparently somewhat effective in topically treating the disease sores.
Obviously not a cure, that didnt happen until penicillin.

Considering that with the mercury treatment you also are getting mercury poisoning, the benefit was probably outweighed by the long term damage.

 

[capsoda]

It was apparently somewhat effective in topically treating the disease sores.

You had to walk around with a silver bullet??? [sm=lol.gif]

 

[GuntherHess]

a quicksilver bullet...

 

[glass man]

REMINDS ME OF THE EARLY 70s WHEN VD WAS AN EPIDEMIC,I REMEMBER A COMMECIAL WITH MUSIC AND THE WORDS WERE : VD IS FOR EVERYBODY NO NOT JUST A FEW![8D] VD WASN'T FOR ME,BUT IT WAS FOR MY THEN WIFE'S COUSIN WHO REFUSED TO SEE A BOY THAT CAME TO HER HOUSE AND WANTED TO TALK TO HER! HE FINALLY HAD TO YELL SO HER MOM AND ALL LOVED ONES COULD HEAR "HEY ,I GOT VD AND SO DO YOU!"[]YEP THE SORES CAME ALONG SHORTLY!

 

[cc6pack]

gunther this is what Jamie and me use[]