A popular treatise on venereal diseases, in all their forms : embracing their history and probable origin, their consequences, both to individuals and to society, and the best modes of treating them : adapted for general and private use / by Frederick Hollick.

  • Frederick Hollick
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[1852]
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Credit: A popular treatise on venereal diseases, in all their forms : embracing their history and probable origin, their consequences, both to individuals and to society, and the best modes of treating them : adapted for general and private use / by Frederick Hollick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    men of the time, to be caused by the fatal in- fluence cf the stars, and especially by the con- junction of Venus and Mars, or of Jupiter and Venus. Many of those, however, who did not believe in Astrology, supposed that this epidemic originated like any other, from general unhealthy influences, such as a bad atmosphere, poisoned wells, the use of lime in bread, and so forth : but some already began to entertain the notion that it was a special affection, which was origi- nated and propagated differently from any other. The celebrated Van Helmont. who wrote in 1640. believed that the Venereal Disease was first produced by unnatural connexion, between a man and a horse, that was sick with the farcy or glanders. And it may perhaps be not out of place to remark here that the discharge from a glandered horse, if it comes in contact with a mucus surface, will cause exactly the same symptoms as ordinary Gon)iorrh.cea Dr. Linden thought it first began from Sodomy, sometimes committed between men and monkeys, or the satyrs of the ancients. Most writers, about the period of the Neapo- litan epidemic, evidently considered the disease then as new. and even now. modern authorities have thought it did not exist before, but the statements already made, lead to a different con- elusion, and make it probable that the terrible epidemic was merely an accidental exaggeration of what had existed before, from the most remote times This celebrated epidemic, it should be observed, followed the siege and tak'.ng of Na- ples; and it may be readily conceived bow much
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