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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    [ «7 ] ' - •* t ~N nereal virus as expeditioufly as poffible, no¬ thing will be fo likely to anfwer that pur- pofe, as avmedicine of this kind, which im¬ mediately ftimulates the glands to fuch a de¬ gree, as to produce a very copious fecretion of their fluids, and thereby diflodge the enemy without either impediment or de¬ lay. With equal plaufibility, acids have been recommended by fome, and fpirits by others; not confidering that the pain, &c. arifing therefrom, would frequently injure as much, and perhaps fometimes more, than the difeafe which they were intended to guard againft. Very numerous have been the advocates for mercurial preparations, whilft feveral have given the preference to thofe of lead. Every man of experience, however, mull: acknow¬ ledge that theories in general (how fpecious foever they may appear) are, the major part of them, extremely defective, when put to the teft. I have myfelf feen a number of va¬ rious experiments made on the prefent fuh- ject; indeed, the line of practice in which for many years 1 have been materially engaged, has enabled me to profecute an enquiry of K 2 ( this