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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
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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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    ' ...... [ 44 ] It may be proper to join the following cOrolj larys to thofe conclufions already drav/n : 1. Mercury alone is fufficient for dedroying yenereal poifon. 2. Mercury, when topically applied to ve*.* nercal parts, adfs fooner and more certainly on the poilon which topically exifts in that part to which it is applied. 3. Therefore Mercury ought to be _ufed both internally and externally at the fame time. 4. Mercury more efpecially deffroys the venereal virus in the folids of bur body, and not the effeds arifing from fuch a virus. The difeafes that remain after faiivation fufficiently' prove this. 5. Therefore, during and after the ufe of Mercury, other remedies are indicated, and ought to be prefcribed for venereal patients, ac.. cording to the variety of their fymptoms. flence no one ought to cenfure me, becaule, according to circumdances, I frequently joined other medicines to the mercurial ; but I will communicate the fpecitic cure of every venC'^ real diforder in another work. C H A P.