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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    C >6 ] i -r' >' IfM t the End whereof he falivated gently, and continuing o do lo ’till the twentieth, he grew well. r. The fecond, from a venereal Ulcer, and a Caruncle n the urinary Paflage, which were for many Years neg¬ ated, had the utmolt Pain and Difficulty in making Vater. He had, likewife. Rheumatic Pains in his Loins nd Legs, with watery Swellings in the latter. We a- .ointed him fix times. He falivated gently (/) about the welfth Day, and fo continued to the twentieth; where - y he was freed from his Pains and Tumors. The uri- tary Paflage was afterwards dilated, and he perfectly ecover’d. 3. The third was a Man of fifty, and both fcorbutic nd fcrophulous; the internal parts of his Mouth were veil’d, relaxed, and fometimes run a famous Liquor. Pu- ulent Matter alfo flow’d from under the Nails of his reat Toes, where fleffiy Tubercles grew; and Pains in he foies of his Feet hinder’d him from walking. All the Lemedies he took could not prevent the Mortification f one of his great Toes, which was therefore cut off, nd his Cafe feem’d defperate. Mercurial Frictions, at mgth, were refolv’d on; for he had in his Youth a vi- ulent Gonorrhea, the Taint whereof we fufpected. 0) Thefe (light Salivations of a few Days continuance, mud, by no means, * here fuppofed ferviceable, any more than a Loofenefs, or other accidental Tnptom ; for it has been fully proved that the Evacuation of Saliva, in a Sa¬ nation, is not the Cure o f venereal Diftempers. might