Observations on venereal complaints, and on the methods recommended for their cure : letter the second.
- Gataker, Thomas, -1769
- Date:
- 1755
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on venereal complaints, and on the methods recommended for their cure : letter the second. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ^ ] ceive the imprefiions of fuch delufions, but it happens too that the very remedy for the diftemper is favourable to the pur- pofes of impofition. This will appear evident from confi- dering the different effedts of mercury in the common ufe of it. Thus for inftance, when the fituation of the patient's affairs make a falivation or even a confinement impradticable, we find, if the mercury adts kindly in the conftitution, venereal fvmptoms of a bad appearance are fome- times cured without much attention to common rules : when a moderate con- finement is complied with, or particular care is taken to avoid catching cold, fuc- cefs is ftill more to be expedted; and if the courfe is purfued till the mouth is made tender without bringing on a regular falivation, the prefent fuccefs as well as the future fecurity may in fome inftances be greater and more to be relyed on. Again, when a falivation is really intended, we](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29347439_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
