Sketches of facts and opinions respecting the venereal disease / [William Houlston].

  • Houlston, William.
Date:
1794
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Credit: Sketches of facts and opinions respecting the venereal disease / [William Houlston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. I • In the preface to a former edition of this work, I ingenuoufly acknowledged my defign of giving information to perfons not of the medical pro- feflion. I might indeed have imitated all the late publifhers on the venereal difeafe, by addreffing the felf fame clafs of readers through the medium of my brethren, whole practice I might have found fault with, and whofe theories I might have ex¬ amined with an air of importance very favoura¬ ble to my view of being thought fuperior to their common-place notions. I might alfo have extend¬ ed my labours to the fplendid dimenfions of a quarto volume*, or, by two in oflavo, fhewn my contempt for literary fmall ware. But when I am aware, that the publications on this fubjefi, palling in daily fucceflion under our notice, ac¬ tually differ from each other only in wordsy and neither have, nor (in many cafes I fear) are in¬ tended to convey any thing beyond the parade of % » i * I have no intention of applying this remark to the late Mr. Hunter’s work, which is the only one that has added any thing veto to our knowledge of the venereal dif¬ eafe, fince the elaborate writings of Astruc.
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