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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    [5 ] iible of a Lack of due Regard to petty Ulcers of the Throat, Tongue, Palate, and Nofe: And notwith- ftanding I myfelf have been for above fix and thirty Years a Pra&itioner in this Difeafe,* and although I had always Opportunity of acquainting myfelf with the Nature of this ano¬ malous Evil, and made good Ufe of it too 5 yet has every Year pro¬ duc’d me fomething new and un- obferved before. T his has always put me upon confulting fuch Au¬ thors, as have in Times pafi de- fcribed the feveral Circum fiances of venereal Patients: And I have ever been moft fond of thofe, who wrote neareft the Time the Difor- der fir ft iprung up. I was extreme¬ ly pleas’d when T met with a Col¬ lection of fuch old Authors printed at Venice. . I found that whilft each defcribes the Diforder after his own Manner, they all deliver an exadt Hiftorr- i