Academical lectures on the lues venerea / Translated from the Latin, with notes, by Jonathan Wathen.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.
Date:
1763
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Credit: Academical lectures on the lues venerea / Translated from the Latin, with notes, by Jonathan Wathen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bitants. Whilft they were in Italy, they hap- pened to meet with a certain prince advanced in age, who formerly had the greateft intimacy with the father of this noble youth; and having engaged the friendthip of this young gentleman, by the many honours and favours conferred upon him, the prince afked, Whither he was next going ? The youth anfwered, To Venice, for the fake of being prefent at . the carnival. He no fooner heard this, than he burít into a flood of tears, and embracing. the young man, he fetched a deep figh, and faid, ** O lovely youth, had I but been in the fame fituation you now are, received the fame advice, and followed the friendly counfel, I had not now been condemned, an infirm old man, to fpend a folitary life in this palace without . children. Inftructed by this example, may you, my noble auditors, be the more folicitous to avoid this fhameful difeafe, and affift others by your good advice. | The immortal Chriftopher Columbus was born in Portugal. This man, in the year 1488, prefented a petition to his moft faithful majefty, defiring he would grant him fome fhips, with which he might purfue a defign he had long and maturely thought of, viz. of difcovering the unknown and richeft parts of the globe: but it happened not long before, that the king (who was well fkilled in affairs of this nature) _being induced by the hope of gain, had caufed an expedition to be undertaken to Guinea in Africa, called the Gold Coaft; the ill fuccefs | of