A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease. To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck by William Saunders.

  • Plenck, Joseph Jacob, Ritter von, 1738-1807.
Date:
1768
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Credit: A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease. To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF GIVING MERCURY, TO THOSE AFFECTED WITH THE VENEREAL DISEASE. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED A New Theory of the Action of this »* , Metal on the Salivary Glands. Tranflated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck, ProfeiTor of Surgery and Midwifery, at Vienna. THE SECOND EDITION. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A Table, exhibiting, at one View, all the Pre¬ parations of Mercury, reduced under proper Heads. WITH An Appendix of Remarks on Mr. Plenck; together with fome Experiments and Obfervations which afcertain with more Accuracy a heady and uniform Method of giving his Medicine ; and a lhort and eafy Method of preparing the Mercurius Calcinatus. By WILLI AM SAUNDERS, M. D. Principium clulce eft, fed finis amoris amarus, Lseta venire Venus, triftis abire iolet, Ovid. LONDON: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry. M DCC LXVIH.