The practice of salivating shewn to be of no use or efficacy in the cure of the venereal disease, but greatly prejudicial thereto, or, The antivenereal virtue of mercury prov'd to be independent of any salival evacuation ... / By M. Chicoyneau ... Illustrated with notes and observations; and confirm'd with instances of the success of this method in England by C. Willoughby.

  • François Chicoyneau
Date:
1723
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Credit: The practice of salivating shewn to be of no use or efficacy in the cure of the venereal disease, but greatly prejudicial thereto, or, The antivenereal virtue of mercury prov'd to be independent of any salival evacuation ... / By M. Chicoyneau ... Illustrated with notes and observations; and confirm'd with instances of the success of this method in England by C. Willoughby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nr] >ning would be thrown away upon thefe People, I re- :r them to vifible Matters of Fad for Convidion. I mull here, farther, obferve, that Salivation is judg- i neceflary by tlie Vulgar, to throw off the quantity of dercury received from the Undion: But, our Eyes ull tell us, this is alfo evacuated by Stool, by Urine nd common Perfpiration. Not here to mention, that lie Cuie is univerfally found to be beft performed when be Mercury is longeft detained in the Body, (g) Noi muft I omit that it foems more difficult to con- ince fome Phylicians than fome Patients, that the Cure > not peifoimed by evacuating the Infection along with be Saliva. However, the Queftion here is not whether be Virus be difcharged with the Saliva ; but whether Salivation be neceflary or fiiperfluous, aflifting or de- rimental to the Cure? With me it is certain, where ither a Salivation, or any other confiderable Evacua- ton happens, the J\^ercury efoapes before it has totally ilinuated it felf, and ltruck oft' the lurking Infedion nm the finer Veflels or inmoft Receffes of the Body • nd hence, I make no queftion, the Cure is often left nfiniflied by Salivation. And if the Mercury ads upon the venereal Virus by irtue of its mechanical Properties, it muft, doubtlefs. (g) Hence we fee the Fallacy of thofe who pretend to prove, that Salivation ¥ tJnftion, is, upon account ol the quantity of Mercury admitted, more pernici-. as than that which is raifed by internal Medicines. The Chirurgeons, how¬ ler, will teach us better: And as we feem to have given this Branch of Phvfic rer to them, we cannot take it ill to be inftru&ed by them. V of