A treatise on the venereal disease, and its cure in all its stages and circumstances / Englished by J[ohn] B[arker]. M.B. of Christ-Church College, Oxon.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738
Date:
1729
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease, and its cure in all its stages and circumstances / Englished by J[ohn] B[arker]. M.B. of Christ-Church College, Oxon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And the Venom of the Mad-dog admitted thro’ the fmalleft Wound produces the mod terrible Symp¬ toms. The Juice of white Helle¬ bore, Tobacco, and Pthora, mixed with the Blood in the fmallelt Quan¬ tity, leave fcarce any Thing unal¬ tered in the whole Body, and bring on certain and fpeedy Death. In¬ finite is the Number of Things, which, if mixed with the vital Fluid, will each produce fome Diieafe, which will furely terminate in Death. I fhall without infilling on further Particulars, Ipeak to one Thing only. Who would believe that no larger a Quantity of the variolous Pus, than may be born away on the Point of a Needle, will, if in¬ troduced into the Blood of a hale robuft Country-man, produce a very lingular Fever of a particular Kind, limited to a certain Duration, Symp-1