This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
Gonorrhoeal attacks in females can sometimes be cut short by one or two paintings of the vagina, cervix uteri, labia, and urethral canal with strong tincture of iodine, after first cleansing away the discharge. The pain lasts for some hours, but the result usually is good.
 
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