Volume 1
A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease. To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck ... by William Saunders.
- Plenck, Joseph Jacob, Ritter von, 1738-1807. Methodus nova et facilis argentum vivum aegris venerea labe infectis exhibendi. English
- Date:
- 1767
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease. To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck ... by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![-as I my fell] for more than five or fix years, during the iaff war, found from mj regimen- .tai pra6flce. I lhall not enquire into the other methods of giving Mercury, becaufe they are without efficacy, or exploded from pradfice.-Thus aethiops and cinnabar, fo much recommended by Boerhaave^ internally in the cure of the venereal difeafe, are found to have no efficacy. «—— Thus fome join quickfilver with purga¬ tives,t others with balfam of Peru, turpentine, camphor, and Tugar ; by thefe various addi¬ tions, the evacuating power of Mercury is encrealcd, it is too foon difeharged’ by fiool, urine, or fweat, nor do thefe additions, even when frequently repeated, reftrain falivation, nay even by thefe means Mercury diredfs its courfe fooner to this excretory. From all thefe circumftances it will appear that the gummy mercurial is to be preferred to all the other preparations hitherto known ; becaufe, during its ufe, the inconvenience and dangers of a falivation are never, or but very feldom to be apprehended, becaufe it can be taken fafely into our fyffem in very large and fufficient dofes, becaufe it circulates readily with our fluids, becaufe it operates fooner up¬ on the venereal poifon, and may be fafely em¬ ployed in every cafe whatfoever. * Chem. T. II. p. 432, and T. I. p. 578, G 2 It](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30788109_0001_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
