Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections / illustrated by a variety of cases.

  • William Blair
Date:
1798-1800
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Credit: Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections / illustrated by a variety of cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . CHAP, 4.] Preliminary Observations. oasg given internally, for the same purpose, about the beginning of the present century, if not earlier. Dr. Daniel Turner, in his *¢ Practical disserta- «¢ tion on the Venereal Disease,” (c). mentions the following case of a patient who had been treated by a course of vegetable acids, Being at one «¢ time in company with that excellent practitioner sé Mr. Charles Bernard, a gentleman came into his s¢ study, as I had reason to believe, upon’ some pri- *¢ vate business ; upon which I retired into another & room, when ina few minutes he came to me, and «¢ desired me to come and see the effects of a new ‘6 method of curing the pox. ‘The patient had «© been for two months under the care of a noted — & Philo-acidus, who placed the cause of this (and I «© think most other diseases) in an Alkaly, for a «s light infection therefrom: In order to eradicate ‘© which, he was advised to eat half a dozen of the « largest lemons he could get, daily, besides good * store of verjuice at his meals, which method * (after some other prescriptions) was to be con- tinued for a month ; by which time, instead of Cc 66 his (e} Edition 5th, part 1st, page 33.