A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie.

  • John Hunter
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3* ] but experience can decide this. But I fhould incline to think it neceffary to give mercury; for I am afraid, our powers, to correct fuch a con- ititution, while the firft caufe fubfilh, are but weak; but would give it fparingly, becaufe it afllfts in difpofing to fuch fymptoms, and might, if given liberally, do injury. I am therefore of opinion, that fuch medi- cines as may be thought neceffary for the conftitution, mould be given along with the fpecific. Bark promifes to be of the moft ge- neral ufe j and opium, adminiftered at proper periods, will be of fingular fervice. By com- bining the bark with mercury, they will coun- teract both difeafes, the local and conflitutional. When the inflammation is fo predomi- nant, that mercury may increafe the dif- pofition, bark mufl be given alone. In inflammations which have a tendency to mortification there remains an increafe of action, but a decreafe of power ■, and this is the caufe of the mortification, by deftroying the balance which ought to fubfift between the power and the action of every part. Upon thefe