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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    [ ] One wife refolution of this * eminent man, is, that if any remedy be fufficiently recom¬ mended for its great utility, it is immediately publifhed' for the general good; for cer¬ tainly the private advantage of-^ one or two perfons is not to be preferred to the common good of our fellow-citizens. O That this is the fixed and ftated opinion of this great man will appear evidently from what he has written, formerly on the fubject of the cancer*, and ^ Seft. 509. Comment. T. i. p, 901. Forte tamen et inde aliqua fpes efFulget, non penitus impoffibiiem efie cancri feparationem a par- til>u3 fanis; licet Hadlenus ignoretur, qua methodo, quibufve remediis, hoc fieri poffit» B Qiiam