A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea : recommending the use of injection, as the most speedy and efficacious method of cure : to which are added, letters from several gentlemen of the faculty, approving the author's new mode of administering mercury / by P. Clare.
- Clare, Peter, 1738-1786.
- Date:
- DCCLXXXIV [i.e. 1784]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on the gonorrhoea : recommending the use of injection, as the most speedy and efficacious method of cure : to which are added, letters from several gentlemen of the faculty, approving the author's new mode of administering mercury / by P. Clare. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![S I R, The accelerated progrefs of your truly ingenious mode of curing a diforder fq inimical to both fexes, by abforption from the internal furface of the mouth and lips, defeats the influence of prejudice, in proportion as pradlitioners become more and more eye-wit- nefles to its fuperior advantages over all other methods hitheito pra61ifed. Its fuccefs has gained it fuch an extraordinary attention, that, in fhe records of medical difeoveries, there is not, perhaps, an example of fuch zeal and emulation having been excited by any obje<9 5 becaufe few, indeed, would be deemed fo i^~ terefting, were we but acquainted with all the ravages long made by the improper admlnif- tration of mercury mofl juflly condemned hy jrOui intelligent correfpondents. For my own part, pleafed with the novelty of the idea, I was no lefs fo with its fuccefs, which. I have fully evinced in a variety of cafes. , Your unreferved and open communication of it to the public, through various] channels, has brought fo many champions into the field, that it is not a few fheets of paper that would ferve to relate the fuccefsful hifloryof the campaign. When your ufeful difeovery, and that otLr iipportam one of Dr. Prieflly, the dephlogifli- cated](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391666_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
