Observations concerning the prevention and cure of the venereal disease : intended to guard the ignorant and unwary against the baneful effects of that insidious malady : with an appendix, containing a list of the most approved medicines now used in the cure of this disorder, also their doses,manner of application, &c. / by W. Buchan, M.D.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Observations concerning the prevention and cure of the venereal disease : intended to guard the ignorant and unwary against the baneful effects of that insidious malady : with an appendix, containing a list of the most approved medicines now used in the cure of this disorder, also their doses,manner of application, &c. / by W. Buchan, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    themfelves to receive it by a vegetable diet* and by moderate evacuations. The remedies will be ufed the moment the difeafe is felt, or even feen, and the contagion generated by it, will be feeble, and propagated only to a fmall diftance from fuch patients. There will then be no difputes among the phyucians, about the nature of the difeafe, to diftradt the public mind, as they will feldom be confulted in it, They have narrow conceptions, not only of the divine gooclnefs, but of the gradual progrefs of knowledge, who fuppofe that all peftilential difeafes fhall not, like the fmall pox, fponer or later, ceafe to be the fcpurge ancj terror of mankind. For a long while air, water, and even the light of the fun, were dealt out by phy* licians to their patients with a fparing hand, They pofifefied for feveral centuries the fame monopoly over many artificial remedies. But a new order of things is rifing in medicine, as well as in government. Air, water, and light, #re taken without the advice of a phyfieian, and bark and laudanum are now prefcribed every-where by nurfes and miftreffes of famn ]ies with fafety and advantage. Human rea^ E foci