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An easy and exact method of curing the veneral disease, in all its different appearances ... And likewise a method of curing the scurvy, gleets, whites, etc. ... with an account of its nature, causes, and symptoms: demonstrated by way of dialogue between physician and patient, for the use and instruction of all unfortunate persons who may labour under that disorder ... / [John Profily].

  • Profily, John
Date:
1748
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Credit: An easy and exact method of curing the veneral disease, in all its different appearances ... And likewise a method of curing the scurvy, gleets, whites, etc. ... with an account of its nature, causes, and symptoms: demonstrated by way of dialogue between physician and patient, for the use and instruction of all unfortunate persons who may labour under that disorder ... / [John Profily]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Humours break forth in Puftules of various Co-r lours, which heal of themfeives, and break out again in other Places afterwards, other fmall Puftules rifing round about thefe, which iirft cor¬ rode the Skin, and in the Sequel become virulent and fordid Ulcers. PatSir, I defire leave to be heard a moment. It feems to me, that to qualify me rightly for com¬ prehending your Difcourfe, a brief Explication of certain Terms (delineating, thofe Parts of the Body which the Diforder is wont principally to affebl and operate upon) would much contribute thereunto, and might therefore properly and ufefully be pre- miied. Ply. Your Remark is juft, and your Defire very reafonable; for to have a juft Notion of the Contagion that caufes the Difeafe, and the pro¬ per Method to remove it, it is certainly ufeful, nay necefiary, to have fome Idea of the Parts which receive it originally, and fo communicate it to the reft. I will therefore trace the Diforder from its Iirft Rife and primitive Situation, as likewife thro* its fubfequent Pafiages and Operations *, and as the Contagion is mutually communicated by the Sexes to each other, in order to facilitate the Knowledge of its Original, it is requifite to premife an anato¬ mical Defer! prion of the Pudenda of both Male and. Female, which appears to me to be what you defire to know. Pat. It is, Debtor; and my Obligation to you will become full greater, if you will widen your Jnftruffions fo as they fliall take in the Ailments of Women as well as of Men, in the Procefs of the Difcourfe, I have hinted to you already a Reafon that ftrongly interefts me in the Knowledge of both Particulars; and as 1 expedl my own Cure from you, I believe I. irmft (aided by your In- K ' ftruclions]