<unk>  were an 18th-century patent medicine containing mercuric oxide and acetic acid used to treat syphilis. Mercury was a common, long-standing treatment for syphilis.<unk>  were marketed by and named for Jean<unk> , a surgeon in the French military. They were a standard treatment in the French military by the 1750s.<unk> 's solution of mercury mixed with acetic acid was intended to reduce the side-effects of mercury treatments, but still proved quite dangerous. A trial of four women at Bicêtre Hospital caused colic, diarrhea, fevers, nausea and vomiting, and mouth ulcers to the level of gangrene. One subject miscarried. A clinical trial of the<unk>  was performed in Geneva in 1761 and deemed successful, which led the<unk>  to be a considered a good treatment for some time, though not without continuing controversy and debate. English physician John Pringe cautioned biographer James Boswell against taking the<unk> , as well as Kennedy's Lisbon Diet Drink, for his venereal disease. The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine, p. 628 (3d ed. 2001) Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet's French novel La Cacomonade also referenced the "dragées de<unk> ". The<unk>  were also marketed in the American colonies in the 1760s and 1770s.
Keyser's Pills
Cramp-ring
Munk's Roll
Tulle gras
Owl's eye appearance
Turlington's Balsam
Krogh length
Green ribbon