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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$pe Ge ‘did {ee or hear of any-of the Number whé _are not for Salivating in adeep and rooted L.ues, fo their Authority and Reafon ought — to be approv’d, and not rejected upon fuchi flender Arguments as are here given us.. The Eighth Obje&ion is a Conclufion. drawn from the preceding, in which hé _ congratulates himfelf and Patients, for fa — ufeful and eafy a Difcovery, and for: the ‘Hopes of banifhing fo dangerous an Opera» tion as a Salivation is: He might with the fame good Senfe have rejoic’d, tliat a Mee _thod was now on Foot,, that wonld give lit- tle Trouble, and do no Good; for as] have all along demonftrated, that ftrong Difeafes _ require ftrong Remedies, if the Strength of - the Patients would bear them, fo are we as fure that this Method will not anfwet in thoufands of Cafes, asiwe daily experience the Neceflity and Suceefs of Salivations. How vain then, and: forwardis this Wri- ter, and his ‘Tranflator, to hope to decry the only effectual. Remedy given us as a Bleffing to heal our Infirmities brought up- on us for our Crimes, without which we fiould be Spectators of miferable Objects; _ of walking Hofpitals; which would give us infuperable Fears and. Terrour! How — far we niay deferve fuch Punilhmenits, 1s Py ye BR Nog \. Seergels a i$

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