A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease : To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck.

  • Joseph Jakob von Plenck
Date:
1772
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease : To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    12/168
    [ ] ielves be curiaus,.* yet ^ tbat a- lone would never 'fiayeijmpel- led me to write, if I had not found from a variety of tryals, that their ufe was very exten- five^ While indeed I fawy front repeated obfervations,, that a very mild and. inno- cent remedy could be pre- pared from Mercury, fubdued by vegetable gum; .when,- befidesy I perceived, -that it was ver\r ufeful to- thofe af- feded with the, venereal dif. eafe,. and; therefore that; it; was a medicine of fo great efficacy in. thofe; cafes ;; If thought I ffiould’ be. want- mg .m; my auty^.as a,memp ber: