An address ... to the ... Royal Society, of London / [Bartholomew di Dominiceti].

  • Bartolomeo Dominiceti
Date:
1764
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Credit: An address ... to the ... Royal Society, of London / [Bartholomew di Dominiceti]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    « better Succefs, except in having an End put to— << all worldly Evil by Death.” Sydenham, alfo juftly determined, “ that neither “ Mercury nor the drying Woods can be counted << Specificks to cure the Venereal Difeafe, being im- < poffible’ to cure it without Sweating.” | Turner, in particular, likewife affures us, ‘¢ to have wonder- “© fully cured Durities, Calofities, and the moft fetid, | “© and defperate Venereal Ulcers of the Noftrils, Pa- << Jate, Uvula, Tonfils, as well in the Legs, as Pri- é¢ vities, only by the Ufe of Fumigations and Baths, ‘< prepared of Emollient Herbs.” — . | Therefore, Hewrne, Sennertias, Se. Ge. like Chriftians advife us, ‘‘ to Bathe alfo healthy Perfons ‘¢ often in the graduated and medicated Baths, and ** vaporous Stoves; and faith, if convenient once a “<< Week.” Certainly, Gentlemen, the faid fatherly Councils arife from what we are convinced of by Experience and natural Reafon; Firft, that no living Man, Wo- man or Child, is hardly to be found clean and totally pure from either the Scorbutic or Venereal Taints : Secondly, that the Ufe of the arbitrarily heated and medicated Baths, Stoves, Sc. &c. are the only in- nocent, fafeft, and powerful Means God has provided to relieve and comfort Human Nature from all the Oppreffions it is fubjeCt to; and root from it all thofe offenfive Particles which too often difturb its natural Funétions; or eafily and effectually to cure and defend our Bodies from the Infults and Misfortunes which we of Courfe daily fwallow: Continually we are fur- - sounded by them, and our fpongeous, cuticular Glands naturally attraét them: As well as from thofe as by our own. voluntary Wretchednefs, either we foolifhly triumph in, or our Parents. haye dilgrace- - fully tumbled into; unluckil; for us, ih acid : So | as