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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![[ 6. ] ago a gonorrhoea ftopt, he contraifl- ed a pox, and befides venereal blotches on his forehead, and on both lides of the frontal bone, he had a broad to¬ phus, not however much elevated j' he was likewife troubled with pains- of the joints j his throat, and the glans penis, were much ulcerated; Having given him a purgative, he began to take daily two fpoonfuls of the folution No.'i. with a decodliort / ■ of the farfaparilla without milk. All his complaints were entirely removed in lix days, without any fa-- liVation, unlefs, that when he- was- cxpofed to cold, there appeared very broad reddifh fpots on his forehead and face, very different however from the former, and which again’ difappeared of their own accord by the heat of a hove. I hill perfuaded' him](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30789643_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
