A further account of the effects of Mr. Hauksbee's alterative medicine, as applied in the cure of the venereal disease : Being ten miscellaneous cases following, in the order of time, the thirty cases already printed. Taken from the register kept by Mr. John Watson, apothecary ... With remarks upon the cases by John Watson. Also a preface, containing an account of the author's attempts for introducing this medicine into publick use ... / By Francis Hauksbee.

  • Hauksbee, Francis, 1687-1763.
Date:
1743
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Credit: A further account of the effects of Mr. Hauksbee's alterative medicine, as applied in the cure of the venereal disease : Being ten miscellaneous cases following, in the order of time, the thirty cases already printed. Taken from the register kept by Mr. John Watson, apothecary ... With remarks upon the cases by John Watson. Also a preface, containing an account of the author's attempts for introducing this medicine into publick use ... / By Francis Hauksbee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •? i ft, To acquaint the Publick, That a certain Medicine was by me found out for the Cure of the Venereal Difeafe in the way of an Altera¬ tive, and to let the Publick know where the faid Medicine was to be fold, nelly, That the whole of the Evidence at that Time, both for and againft the further Ufe of this Medicine, was collected together in a Pam¬ phlet, and publickly fold. qdly, That any Gentlemen of the Phyfick Fa¬ culty, and the Governors of Hofpitals, (who undoubtedly were the proper eft and mojl unexcep¬ tionable Perfons to be particularly appealed to in the prefent Circum fiances) as were defirous of fuller Satisfaction, or of ftronger Evidence than what they had received from the printed Cafes, jhould be fo far obliged, as to have a Trial, or any Number of Trials made with this Medicine, under their own Infpedlion, upon infedied Sub- jecis examin'd and recommended by themfelves. The two firft of thefe Intentions have in fome meafure been anjwerd by the Advertifement \ for there has been fome Demand both for the Pamphlet and for the Medicine; and 1 wifh I could fay that my third Intention had been an- jwered as well. But here was frefh Matter of Mortification to me, as the Reader of the follow¬ ing Cafes will obfirve; for fo, Jo it has happen'd\ that