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
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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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    ee ait eae. Difeafe, they ought to refrain from acri- monious Diet of any Species. Do we not daily experiefice, that they whofe Blood abounds with Saline Particlés are very Salacious ?. Witnefs fuch as labour tin= der an Elepbantiafis, where there is an in- exhauftible. Stock of very pungent, ‘and almoft corrofive Salt in the ‘Mafs of Hu- - mours. Now the Secretions do always par- take of the Nature of ‘the Blood, from whence they are thrown off: Whereforé _ the Seed is alfo pungent, fharp, ftetting, and irritative; and therefore it muft fol- | Jow, that a Gleet in fuch a Conftitutioa — muft be hardly curable. The Diet of fuch. - as have contracted this Diforder by Ona _ nifm, ought to incraffate and conftring@ | Women generally fuffer more than the Men by fuch a Praétice, becaufe. the Part ” affeéted is near to the Touch, and there- ~ _ fore the Glands are much more relaxed: _ The Remedies therefore proper for Men aré. alfo convenient here ; but if they are worfe there is this Comfort attends, © that Exter- nals come nearer to the Seat of the Dif= eafe, and indeed may be readily applied fo .. as to touch the very Part affeéted; fo that if they fuffer more, yet are they more _eafily cured. As therefore the Difeafeisthe _ fame, fo is the Remedy ; “nor is there any — So ieee D- | Variation Aa Pn] #4 Persea We “g a 4 7 EE 2? ky ayy hb oy 2 Ps
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