A new method of curing the venereal disease much safer and easier than any hitherto used. With a confutation of the old hypotheses concerning that distemper. To which is added, a relation of two extraordinary cures ... perform'd by the author ... Done out of the French / [Jacques Bouëz de Sigogne].

  • Bouëz de Sigogne, Jacques
Date:
1724
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Credit: A new method of curing the venereal disease much safer and easier than any hitherto used. With a confutation of the old hypotheses concerning that distemper. To which is added, a relation of two extraordinary cures ... perform'd by the author ... Done out of the French / [Jacques Bouëz de Sigogne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * % * IV The Approbation of Dr. Boudin, Counfellor of State, firft Phyfician in Ordinary to his Majefty, and iate Dean of the Faculty of Paris* I Have always lookp upon twb things, as the principal Cbfiacles to the Progrefs of Phyfick, the one is the general Fondnefs Aden have for Syftems, which oblige young Phyficians to fpend a great deal of Tirne± which might be better beftow’d in making ufeful Obfervations, and fdls their Imagination with well contriv’d Fablesy but of no ZJfe towards the Cure of their Patientsy which ought to be the chief and only end of all their Studies mid Labours. The other is not only their ISfe- glcdl of but likewife their diflikg and repugnance both to the Search of new Remedies, and to the application of them in their Practices when ever they have been difco- ver d by others more Couragious and Diligent then they. Ft Treat ife that oppofis two fitch Prejudice s9 cannot chufe but be very nfeful; the Author here proves irrefra¬ gable that Flypocrates/;^ rejected all Syftems as ufelefi% that he might the better apply himfelf to Obfervations, and the Study of proper Medecines. That which our Author has dijeover d% for the Cure of Venereal Dif- cafes, and propofes the ZJfe of to other Phyficians, feems to me infinitely preferable to Mercury, as commonly u- fed. Every Body knows what Occidents may be jufily fear¬ ed, from Salivation procur’d by FriElion; as well as what the Patients fujfer during Thirty or Forty Days application of Mercury, But our Author s Remedy doth never raife a Salivation; it only purges in the gent left Manner without Grigings or Danger, and one be¬ holds with Pleafure the mofi dreadful Symptoms difap