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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    C 5> ] If it acted upon the poifon only, it might be fuppofed to be in two ways, either by deftroying its qualities, by decompofing, or by attracting it, and carrying it out of the conftitution. If the firft were its action, the quantity alone would be the thing to be depended upon; if the fecond, the quantity of evacu- ation would be the object. But if it aft upon the principle of de- ftroying the difeafed action of the living parts, counteracting the venereal irritation, by producing another of a different kind, then neither quantity alone, nor evacuation, will avail much ; but it will be quantity, joined with fenfible effects, that will pro- duce the quickeft cure, which, from ex- perience, we find to be the cafe. Mercury lofing its effects upon the dif- eafe, by conftant and habitual ufe, is a proof that it neither ads chemically, nor by carrying off the poifon by the excretions, but by its ftimulating power,