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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![[ 4° ] any foulnefs, difagreeable fmell or unufual appearances in the urine, muft be derived from the fame unhappy fource. A giddi- nefs or a pain in the head, a laffitude, and eruptions of almofl: every kind, are deem- ed venereal: nor can a pimple or wart, unluckily fituated, efcape being made the objedls of dread and horror to the affright- ed and deluded patient. From thefe arid from the numerous other fchemes pradtifed in the manage- ment of venereal complaints, a variety of misfortunes are neceffarily produced. Had the pradlitioner been as defirous of fe- curing the patient’s future welfare, as he was of eftablifhing the character of fome favourite theory, the effedts of former dif- orders would not probably have re-appear- ed. The difeafe might have been intirely eradicated before it had tainted the whole conftitmion ; nor might the confequences have been felt at a time perhaps when, from fome chnage in the patient’s filia- tion](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29347439_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
