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
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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.

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    [ ] ( her to fociety, if I delayed the publication of them any longer. - . As I am by no means rich, I might -have confulted my own advantage more, 1 might have made ufe of a fordid prudence, by keeping it as a fecret, and then perhaps it would have been more pro- htable. I might have follow- -ed the well-known example of Keiser, who has become rich by concealing the com- pojfition of his pills, though lefs ^efficacious; or of He-» rensWand, Langhans ILL, and other fuch illuftrious quacks, and thus have pri- ^ vately