Lac-elephantis, or, medicated milk of elephants : an effectual cure for debility, seminal-weakness, gleets, impotency, spasmodic stricture, blindness, and the venereal disease, in both sexes : with a plain prescription, whereby all persons affected by impure connexion, can radically cure themselves for five shillings, the first day : under the caveat of government, to guard youth against ignorant pretenders, and pretended institutions, for curing these complaints / by P. Campbell.

  • Campbell, P.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Lac-elephantis, or, medicated milk of elephants : an effectual cure for debility, seminal-weakness, gleets, impotency, spasmodic stricture, blindness, and the venereal disease, in both sexes : with a plain prescription, whereby all persons affected by impure connexion, can radically cure themselves for five shillings, the first day : under the caveat of government, to guard youth against ignorant pretenders, and pretended institutions, for curing these complaints / by P. Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2(3 employed without effect, and a gangrene, sphacelus, or mortification seemed rapidly ap- proaching ; in this situation 1 administered the Medicated Elephant’s Milk, in the usual way, and to my great satisfaction she w’as perfectly well in ten days. In Germany this disease is called Tripper ; and the public hospitals have generally been filled with gonorrhoeal or tripping patients, till the introduction of the Lac~Elephantis in that country. On my arrival at Vienna, 1 was in- troduced to some of the Royal Household by Dr. Hebden. The reputation of my medicine soon spread abroad, and in four days I had five hundred patients. I established a correspon- dence with some medical gentlemen for admi- nistering the medicine in various parts of that country, and I have lately received a commnni- cation from Dr. Hebden, with the report of the various medical gentlemen who have emp]o} ed it in the cure of the tripper. “ Nothing can ex- ceed the certain efficacy of the medicine, nor can any thing exceed the encomium given to it throughout the whole empire of Germany.”— The report goes on to state the particulars of numerous extraordinary cures, w hich the limits of this essay prevent ns from detailing. In Portugal and Spain, where this di.sease is