A practical treatise; or, second thoughts on the consequences of the venereal disease. In three parts, viz. I. On the simple gonrrhoea, gleets and other weaknesses ... II. On the virulent gonorrhoea ... III. On the venereal lues ... To which is annex'd, a vindication of the practice of salivating ... / [Joseph Cam].

Cam, Joseph, -1743

Date:: 1729

Credit: A practical treatise; or, second thoughts on the consequences of the venereal disease. In three parts, viz. I. On the simple gonrrhoea, gleets and other weaknesses ... II. On the virulent gonorrhoea ... III. On the venereal lues ... To which is annex'd, a vindication of the practice of salivating ... / [Joseph Cam]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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jur'd by her Husband, and deliver’d upto ibs Pretenders to be cured of a Clap, which . they did after their Manner: She complain’d — of Diforders about her for four’ or five Years; which deceiv'd fome noted PraGti- — ane into a Belief, that fhe labour’d un- der Hyftericks; but at the Expiration of — that Time, a frefh Clap broke out with all. , its virulent Symptoms, and which would _ hot yield to any Remedy, but the laft, I . mean a Salivation, which as it advanced, the Symptoms gradually difappear’d, and State of Health. We eafily guefs’d* this Clap from the Pox, by reafon of the Pains; — Faintings, and ill State of Health fhe la. bour’d under. _ Ls) oh ie bY’ ! Be this how it may, our Method of Cure’ muft be fitted to the Degree of Infection; and as that runs very high, it is neceffary to have Recourfe to Salivations, as the. greateft Remedy we have to contraft with | Poxes: And I} think I may juftly affirm; that fome later Phyficians, who exclaim againft this Method as ufelefs, dangerous,’ and prejudicial, have never had: much Ex- » perience. to back their Affertions: But as ] dately wrote a Pamphlet in its Vindication,’ which I now annex’to thefe Sheets, I fhall _ Wave its farther Defence here, and refer my. : Co PGE al eit Reader

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