A letter addressed to Caesar Hawkins : containing new thoughts and observations, in the cure of the venereal disease ... With a few extraordinary cases in that disease / By Charles Hales.

  • Hales, Charles (Surgeon)
Date:
1770?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A letter addressed to Caesar Hawkins : containing new thoughts and observations, in the cure of the venereal disease ... With a few extraordinary cases in that disease / By Charles Hales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I doubt not, but that your candor and humanity will caft a veil over the errors of the head or pen, fo long as you per¬ ceive, that their chief efforts incline, to a good and public intention. Some years ago, I publifhed the firfl edition of a pamphlet, in titled, Salivation not necef- faryS&c. with a view not only to my own emolument, but to inform my brethren, i ^ of the improvements I had made in the cure of the Venereal JDifeafe, which, I flat¬ ter myfelf, were attended with more eafe to the patient, and a greater certainty of cure% than were before known ; confequently the courfe of bufinefs afforded great plea- fure and fatisfadion to myfelf: which would have been heightened to my wifhes, if my fituation and circumftances could have permitted my methods of cure to have been made public* That