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

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    [ «■ ] after every other had proved the reverfe. Hd thereupon agreed to put it once more to the teft, but was obliged to defer it for a few weeks on account of a long journey he was the next day to fet out upon. In the courfe of a month his lordfhip returned, and then informed me that my attendance was doubly neceffary to him j having, on the journey, added a clap to the old diforder. The running was plen¬ tiful, and accompanied with a heat of urine and chordee. / I immediately recommended the ufe of injedtion and a few alterative pills, which, with a proper regimen, perfedtly cured him of both clap and gleet in the fpace of thirty- two days. From the number of cafes that I have feen fimilar to the preceding ones, where a frefh infedtion has been engrafted upon an old gleet, and the little difficulty generally experienced in removing both together, I am led to believe, that in many inftances, the fti- mulus produced by the venereal virus, has fre¬ quently contributed to accelerate the cure of the gleet; and particularly fo, when it fixes M immediately