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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![the . fever difappeared in fourteen days, * but the venereal fymptoms which yet remained became much worfe. Being at laft free from the ^ The very eminent Petit, the father, is of opinion that a quartan fever is fometimes a ' fymptom of the venereal difeafe, and therefore he cures quartan fevers by falivation, in thofe perfons who many years before have had ve¬ nerea] fyrnptoms, and even fome after they have refifted febrifuge medicines. Memor, de PAcad. Royale de Chirurgie, tom. L p. 347^ &c. But V. SwiETEK has given us an obferva- tion which leads to a contrary opinion: du¬ ring the courfe of a falivation, he obferved a quartan fever of a regular type. Comment, tom. I. p. 10. I can pofitively affirm that I have feen an intermittent fever brought on by undfloo in venerealqjatients, which could be cured by no other remedy but the bark; and as often as the Mercury was repeated, fo often did the fever return. intermittent](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30789643_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
