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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    [ 43 ] is however of much importance, to avoid all manner of excefs, and to avoid the common caufes of inflammation on the one hand, and thofe productive of putrefaction on the other— In medio tutifllmus ibis. Of the CURE OF THE LUES VENEREA. TO cure the local and vifible effects of the lues, we muft attack it through the medium by which it was communicated, that is the blood, without however confidering the blood itfelf, as a difeafed part, or containing the poifon, but as the vehicle of our medicine which will be carried by it to every part of the body, where the poifon was carried, and in its courfe it will act on the difeafed folids. With regard to the preparation of the medicine, and the modes of adminiftering or applying it, we are to confider two things. ill. The