An inquiry into the origin and antiquity of the lues venerea; with observations on its introduction and progress in the islands of the south seas. To which is added, a short view of the various remedies recommended in that distemper, from its first appearance in Europe to these times / [William Turnbull].

  • Turnbull, William, active 1779-1806
Date:
1786
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Credit: An inquiry into the origin and antiquity of the lues venerea; with observations on its introduction and progress in the islands of the south seas. To which is added, a short view of the various remedies recommended in that distemper, from its first appearance in Europe to these times / [William Turnbull]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v-'ere, I cannot fee any benefit that would arife from it in praftice. It is enough that we are acquainted with a remedy^ when judicioufly adminiftered, fufficiently powerful to defcroy the efiecls of the virus, and cure the difeafe. I refer the curious - to perufe the arguments which this learned gentleman has brought forward in favor of this doflrine, m his medical cafes and chfervationL I fhall now finifii my hiftorical obfervati- ons by remarking, that it has been my in¬ tention throughout; to deftroy this falfe idea, that the Venereal Difeafe was known in the earlieil periods of European hiftory: on the contrary, I have attempted to eftablife, that the difeafe is of modern date, and in¬ troduced at the ^ra repeatedly mentioned; and that thofe difiempers, which have been produced from authors of antiquity (as the j^rfiira of Ardern, &c.) in favor of it, wxre not Venerea], though fimilar to it in their appearances, but' occalioned by thefe four caufcs—viz* ift, luxurious living—2d, in- continency in '-the fexes-^—3d, want of clean] inefs