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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    that not Jo much as one Jingle Subjett in Jetted with the Venereal Difeafe, has been recommend¬ ed to the taking of this Medicine Jor Cure\ either by any Gentleman of the Faculty, or by a Go¬ vernor of an Hofpital, that I know of What Reafons thefe Gentlemen may have lying by them, that can juf ify Jo unanimous a Dif- regard to fo candid an Offer, back'd with all the Evidence in my firff Pamphlet in favour oj this Mediciney is befi known to themjelves. But I muft now take the Liberty to acquaint theje Gentlemeny (if they Jhall condejcend to read over the whole Forty Cajes contained in this and my former Pamphlet) Fhat it is now expetted that they pay a proper Regard to the Fatts re¬ corded in all the Cajes, particularly to thoje con¬ tained in the following Pages, (to which they might have been Witneffes if they would;) They are defir d to read over the whole in a calm Dif- poftion of Mindy to confider them welly and then to pronounce upon themy (if they pronounce at all) with Candor and Impartiality; and not to be out of humour with this Medicine, or with mey becauje I have had the Rejolution to offer this Medicine to the Publick by the means of the News-PaperSy even after it had been-flighted or rejufed by themjelves. For as this Medicine has a Pendency to the general Good oj' Mankindy I have thought it my Duty to make uje of all the fair and honejl Methods I can think of] for its more