A practical treatise on venereal diseases; or, critical and experimental researches on inoculation, applied to the study of these affections, with a therapeutical summary and special formulary / Translated from the French, by A. Sydney Doane.

  • Philippe Ricord
Date:
1849
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Credit: A practical treatise on venereal diseases; or, critical and experimental researches on inoculation, applied to the study of these affections, with a therapeutical summary and special formulary / Translated from the French, by A. Sydney Doane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUTHORS PREFACE. THE various motives which induce men to write, do not allow us to place an equal degree of confidence in all of them. The truth of this assertion is incontestable as regards the history of sciences in general, but more particularly in that which is about to occupy our attention in the following pages. If we survey the works which we already possess on the artificial inoculation of ve- nereal diseases, we shall soon find that either the interest of some theory, the speculations of quacks, or, not unfrequently, vexatious criticism and misrepresentation, have dictated what we find in authors who have written on this important subject. If we read and then compare what we find with the results of honest experi- ence, in different works on this subject, we shall too frequently be convinced of the error of some, the ignorance of others, and the want of good faith in most of them. As regards myself, I have pursued my researches without pre- conceived notions, and with the sole object of discovering the truth amongst so many contradictions. My numerous experiments will enable me to furnish a material proof of every point I advance. Since the time of Hunter, the experiments of inoculating syphi- litic diseases have been made:— I. To prove the existence of the specific cause of syphilitic dis- Il. To distinguish between diseases which resemble each other.
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