A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease : To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck.

  • Plenck, Joseph Jacob, Ritter von, 1738-1807.
Date:
1772
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Credit: A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease : To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3® ] real Difeafe^ that I might enquire ; into the caufe by which Mercury more erpeeially ad:ed on the falivary V glands, I converfed upon'the fubjedt with Philippus Ambrosius Mar- HERR, a very eminent phyfician, and my particular friend, who with his ufual candour, told me, that as yet no juft account of that phienomenon was given j — that many hypothefes had been thought of by a variety of authors, but that none of them was fufticiently accuratethat the Very plaufible opinion o‘f Dr. Pitcairn,, who feemed to many to have hit upon the thing, in attributing it to the fpecific gravity of the Mercury, was fo fully refuted by (*) § Van Swie- TEN, that nothing more remained to be offered for its defence j in the (*} § C.T. I. P. 207. •mean