A letter / from J. Keyser, surgeon and chymist, of Paris, to Mr. J. Wathen, surgeon, of London, in answer to his pamphlet, intitled, Practical observations on the veneral disease, &c. ... To which is added a letter from the learned Prof. Le Cat, of Rouen, with an account of a remarkable cure ... performed with ... [Keyser's] medicine.

  • Keyser, J., active 1752-1765.
Date:
[1765]
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Credit: A letter / from J. Keyser, surgeon and chymist, of Paris, to Mr. J. Wathen, surgeon, of London, in answer to his pamphlet, intitled, Practical observations on the veneral disease, &c. ... To which is added a letter from the learned Prof. Le Cat, of Rouen, with an account of a remarkable cure ... performed with ... [Keyser's] medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    16] ceffity to decline its further Ufe, without performing by it one Angle Cure. But from all I have faid, I would not have you infer, that I deny the Poffibility of its Curing. No ; my real and impartial Deduction is, that your Medicine has no Right to claim Equality, much lefs Superio¬ rity, to other more common mercurial Pre¬ parations, as a general and univerfal Cure of the Venereal Difeafe : For as it is milder and weaker, fo it is lefs efficacious than moft of that Clafs ; and of Courfe requires a tedi¬ ous Length of Time, and a vaft Quantity of the Pills, to effedt the Cure, whenever it is thereby obtained. In Proof of which, I ap¬ peal to the Cafes recited in your Letter and Narrative; It is fit only for weakened and exhaufted Conftitutions: It is there that your’s, or fimilar ones, which every Difpen- fatcry abounds with, may be properly ap¬ plied, Whether fuch a State be the Con¬ sequence of the Difeafe itfelf, or of other more adtive Preparations; when, if they do not compleat the Cure, they will at leaf!: prove a good Supplement or Auxiliary, till others more active and certain may be exhi¬ bited. It was fuch an Inftance, Sir, that you al¬ lude to, where I moftjuftly complimented you upon its Efficacy* : But I mufl; now in- * See Not, Pag- 5- form .v/ * i