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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    the fpace of eight days, by con tin lad¬ ing thebalfamic folution of Mercury, the gonorrhcEa was cured, and in a flaort time the fcabby eruption en¬ tirely difappeared. This eruption, however, was not venerea], but received in forne other manner. ■V The good efFedfs of the white hellebore in the itch, which I have frequently experienced, I owe to the moll eminent and Ikilful Dr. Prin-* gle Observation - V. - A widow,'aged 47, of a thin ha¬ bit of body, was alilidled, for more than two yearsF with a very malig- * Obfervat. on the difeafes of the army, on. • • the itch, p. 311., nant.