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
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.
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![[31*] mean time it feemed probable, to hiti^, that Mercury had a greater afEnity with the faliva and mucus, than with any of the other fluids of our body, and that therefore the mouth and throat were chiefly afteded by it. ———This difcerning man likewife added, that he had feen a fmall quan¬ tity of Mercury by trituration difap- pear in the faliva, but that it was ftiil probable, there was a greater affinity between Mercury and mucus i for Mercury not only runs to the falivary glands,, but likewife to the mucous ones, and befldes, that the more vifcid a mucus was much fitter for retaining it than the thinner fluid the faliva ; and obferved, that an experiment might be made to determine this mat¬ ter with certainty, which has hitherto been negleded on account of its fim-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30789643_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
