Salivation exploded, or, A practical essay on the venereal disease ... To which is subjoined, a dissertation on gleets and weaknesses ... / By Charles Swift.

  • Swift, Charles
Date:
1780
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    t «* ] thereupon called in, and found the parties it* the fituation as above 'defcribed. The child at this time was'not more than twelve months old, confequently very little fiiccefs could be expedted from the application of medicine immediately to the infant itfelf, for, let the preparation be ever fo palatable to the tafte* or gentle in its effects, a fufficient quantity would lidt be taken to eradicate a difeafe of this kind. Therefore* I defired the mother to continue fuckling her child, that the re¬ medy might be conveyed to it through the fame channel that had communicated the difeafe; for this purpofe, I immediately put her under a courfe of alteratives, of which (lie could take only fmall dofes on account of the infant, whereby the cure was protrac¬ ted to near four months, at which period I had the faiisfadtion of feeing both mother and child perfectly freed from this loathfome difeafe. The man’s health was re-eftabliihed in half the time that had been requifite for the cure of his wife and child, by reafori of his taking the medicines in their full dofes. . ■ f ■ ,..v • I C0ULI5 mention feveral cafes fimilar to * the foregoing ones, was I not of opinion, 3 that