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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    ' * v ' • • y _ * a (id.) Six of the forty Patients mentioned, are ft, behind; but as their Cafes and Proceedings were the fan with fome already defcribed, we fhall be lefs particul; about them. , (i i. One of this Number, whom I had with Monf Ter a was afflicted with flying Pains in his Limbs, and venj real Ulcers in the Throat, but cured in twenty Day without Salivating. j ■ - \ ‘ . I a. Another, with Monf Giraud., was cured, in tl fame Time, of a venereal Scabies, with only a gent Sputation. 3. A third, with Monf Germain, falivated prett freely, and got well in the fame Time. 4, y, and 6. To conclude, I had three with Mon Soulier ; all afflicted with the common venereal Symj toms, and made well, by a fmall Sputation, in twent Days. ' From the whole Years Proceedings we learn the folloy ing Particulars; viz. that, of thirty nine Patients, twent feven were perfectly cured by this new, this gent] Method ; that ten of the Number were perfectly cure without any Salivation; that fixteen of the faid Nun ber were perfectly cured by a flight Sputation ; that fi of the remaining twelve were partially cured; that th othe