Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections. Part the second: Containing Additional Evidence, with critical and practical Remarks, on the new saline antisyphilitic Remedies; and an Answer to some Objections made against the former Part. : By William Blair, A.M.F.M.S. Surgeon Of The Lock Hospital And Asylum, And Of The Finsbury Dispensary, &c.

  • Blair, William, 1766-1822.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Essays on the venereal disease and its concomitant affections. Part the second: Containing Additional Evidence, with critical and practical Remarks, on the new saline antisyphilitic Remedies; and an Answer to some Objections made against the former Part. : By William Blair, A.M.F.M.S. Surgeon Of The Lock Hospital And Asylum, And Of The Finsbury Dispensary, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    « /or ^Aosc roAo had adopted simitar conclusions; “ hut, though I deem it incumbent upon all men, and « w*or£ especially upon medical men, to cherish the « sense of human fallibility, my fears have nearly sub- « sziei. The stroke, ns /Ar ns / can see, zs much less » \ “ terrible than the distant rumbling. The meteor ap- «« pears to have been of the species which the ancients « held cheap under the title of brutum fulmen.” I now leave my readers and the public to deter- mine where, and in what measure, the “ disgrace must fix, which will probably result from the present con- troversy. It may be reasonably supposed I shall have little or nothing more to advance on this sub- ject : but, as it is not very unlikely that a certain writer may continue to retain his good opinion of these remedies, (“ That the nitrous acid and its “ kindred,” says he, « will occupy a much more “ important station in the materia medica antisy- “ philitica, than the author of the Essay seems u ready to assign them, or rather has already assigned “ them, is my present firm persuasion,”] the public will perhaps be presented with additional argu- ments in support of that opinion. Should this event take place, the fertile editor may spare him- self