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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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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    [4] Perplexity: Efpecially when the Difeafe is grown defperate through Negledt, or when, by a wrong Treatment, it is become the Pati¬ ent’s Torment, and the Phyfician’s Reproach. All Practitioners agree, that no Diforder is more liable to thefe Mifchiefs, than that which we call the French Disease. In the Management of this filthy Malady, Things fometimes occur which the longed: Obfervation was never be¬ fore able to difcern ,• and the oldefl: Artift mud:, at lead: fometimes, con- fefs himfelf a mere Novice, and own his Ignorance both of the Na¬ ture of the Complaint and its Cure. Moreover, it is not uncommon in this Diforder, to be appris’d of Things, which, though they feem as Trifles hardly worth regarding, yet {hall foon produce a Train of horrible Confequences. Phyfici- ans mud: have been too often fen- fible