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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    [ 1^3 ] to a ftate of fuppuration y he applied to a‘ furgeon, who fuggefted the ne- ceffity of promoting the fuppuration, ' as the only poffible means of evacuat¬ ing the venereal virus j accordingly he confined the patient in a warm •room, allowed him to indulge freely in a full diet, and he had recourfc to mercurial undion : the gentle¬ man being feized with a fever, I was fent for, and he communicated to me his venereal complaints. His pulfe ■was quick and hard; he complained of pain in his back, head-ach, third, and other fuch fymptoms as I had frequently feen arife from a mercu¬ rial courfe conduded on the plan here prcfcribed* I ordered him to be blooded ad |xij. to omit his undion, to drink large quantities of a folution of gum arabic in water, and like- wife ordered him a purging mix¬ tura