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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    fition of which they belong, and about which they twine. The Adtion of each Part is difturb’d, and the Juices they produce are no longer fit to anfwer the Ends which Nature had ordain’d them for. This Matter would require a fuller Diftertation, but what I have faid will be fufficient for the Matter in. hand. I come now to explain the Atrophy of the Leg, which will not be difficult to account for from the Principles I have advanc’d. I am perfuaded that the Nerves are ordain’d by Nature to convey their nutricious Juices into every Part; if you cut a Nerve any where, that Part falls into an Atrophy; and if you cut an Artery where the Mufcle joins to it, it lofes its Motion. Such a prodigious Stoppage as was in our Patient’s Leg and Thigh was more than fufficient to choak up the Paflage of the nutricious Juice of the Leg, and to wither it to the degree I found it, when I law her firft. The Day after my firft Vifit I call’d M. de Chirac, firft Phy- fician to his Royal Highnefs the Regent, he faw and examin’d the Lady, and found her in the Condition here mention’d, and look’d upon her Cafe as incurable, and told me -he much doubted the Succefs of my Undertaking. The fame Day I defir’d Dr. Boudin, Chancellor of State, and firft Phyfician to the Infanta 6)ueen, to come and fee my Patient, her Cafe being fo extraordinary, who promis’d me to come the next Day, but was prevented by other Bufinefs. Dr. Maloy, Phy¬ fician of the Faculty of Haris, and of the. Royal Hofpital of the Invalids, came out of Curiofity to fee{ her. Dr. Andre, Profeftbr of Phyfick at the Royal College, faw her feveral times, as did likewife Dr. Couttier, Regent Dodtor, and Dr. Baffat, Phyfician to the late Duke of Berry. Alfb, Dr. Bourneau, another Regent Dodtor, and Monfieur Guerin, an eminent Surgeon, faw her above a Year before I did. I could likewife name Mefif. Charras. Father and Son, Apothecaries; but I fancy I have nam’d Witnefs more than enough to put the Fadt beyond all Doubt. But after Dr. de Chirac had vi- fited her, I refolv’dto adminifter my Specific to her. Before fhe had took it many Days, I was agreeably fur priz’d to find the Heel loofen it felf infenfibly from the Buttock and Thigh, my Remedy working gently with her by Stool, by Sweat, and