A short account of the venereal disease : With observations on the nature, symptoms, and cure; and the bad consequences that attend by ill management; with proper admonitions to such as do, or may, labour under this misfortune. Together with some hints on the practical scheme, his methods and medicines expos'd, and the gross impositions therein detected. To which is added, a short account of old gleets, and other weaknesses; and the reason why they are so seldom cured: with the author's method of cure. As also an account of specificks; the use and abuse of the name, and how it covers ignorance and a cheat. The whole design'd for publick good. The third edition. / By Joseph Cam, M.D.

Cam, Joseph, -1743

Date:: 1719

Credit: A short account of the venereal disease : With observations on the nature, symptoms, and cure; and the bad consequences that attend by ill management; with proper admonitions to such as do, or may, labour under this misfortune. Together with some hints on the practical scheme, his methods and medicines expos'd, and the gross impositions therein detected. To which is added, a short account of old gleets, and other weaknesses; and the reason why they are so seldom cured: with the author's method of cure. As also an account of specificks; the use and abuse of the name, and how it covers ignorance and a cheat. The whole design'd for publick good. The third edition. / By Joseph Cam, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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( 4^ ) .wonderful Speciffld toys in tk,c Gutsfomc few Hours, ] it-,,is foon carried off again ; and I maftobfervqi that it is Phyfically impoffible, that five or fix Grainy of any •Medicine- can produce thofe wonderful Alterations Ain-/a Blood and Juice?-Jp tainted; apd therefore this,,is a ridicu¬ lous, andean -afifolpte Cfyiffe, to delude poor Unfortunate People,, and at once to empty their Bodies.aud -their Purfes. But this Gentleman returns to his Ar¬ gument, and tells me, Sir! Remark this NecMice! tiss but a [any one to. look at l Nothing,better for Teeth and.Childbed- women ! Sir, ’tis an appended Remedy 1 only a<Ss by Effluvia! weighs but a few Grains itfclfi, and yet, Sir, take my Word fort, it makes fuch Alterations in the Fluids, and fuch Impreflions on the Solids, that as the worthy Dr. Ch—U-n fays again, ’tis furprizing: 1 ihall not nOw give nryfelf any Trouble about this Affair, only if its Effluvia were fo ftrong as to make a Wind-Mill go, I cou’d tell him how tq make it turn to good Advan¬ tage ; and I can, in the mean while, tell the World, that if ,hc plcafes to affirm it will do fo, he has a Father to cite for his AlUrtion. , .

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