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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And yet a Perfon without Skill on Hu¬ mane Bodies, or in the Practice, fhall fet up to be an Aifculapius! Yis to me furprizing, both becaufe of the Igno¬ rance of the Pretender, and the known Impoflibility of the thing to be done : And if the World is refolv’d to favour fuch Impofitions, ’tis their own Choice, not want of Difcovery in me. Thus, my dear Reader, have I for thy fake laid much in a little compals : I have, it is true, decry’d fome Mens Practices, but I hope I have done it with good Manners and Decency ; and as Mens Lives and Health lie at ltake, I could hardly fay lefs: I am not however faying, that I alone polfefs Secrets for this Difeafe which other Men have not; no, I admire and kifs the Feet of the Learned Body of Pbyfick in this City : I cannot enough praife the Induftry of our jBody of Surgeons, in this great Metropolis, who of late Years have outdone thofe Monfieurs, who carry too much Sway even yet, but how defervedly they only know who are skill’d in this Noble Art : Thofe Gentlemen being regular in their Proceedings, I allow them all that they can

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