Salivation not necessary for the cure of the venereal disease / [Charles Hales].

  • Hales, Charles
Date:
1765
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Credit: Salivation not necessary for the cure of the venereal disease / [Charles Hales]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Surgeons, that I fhould hit upon a Method of Cure lefs painjul, lefs troublefoine, and lejs hazardous, than that which is genet ally in Ufe. This Riddle may be eafily folved, if the Reader will take the Trouble to perufe the following Relation. In my Youth I had an Opportunity of feeing a Variety of Cafes in the Venereal Difeafe, under a Matter, who was then fa¬ mous for that, as well as general Practice. This brought to my Acquaintance many young Gentlemen, who, tho’ they had been great Sufferers in the Wars of Venus, yet did not fo much lament unfortunate Acci¬ dents attending the Difeafe, as the Difco- very they might make to their Friends and Families, many of them having been expe¬ rimentally convinced, that what the Difeafe alone might not reveal, would be ettedtually difcovered by the Means of Cure that my Matter, as well as others, then made Ufe of; which Apprehenfion, added to the extreme Antipathy they had taken to a loathfome Load of Medicine, or the Horrors of Salivation and its Confequcnces, prompted me to e 11 gently and ftudioufly intent on fearching a- E 2
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