Continuation of the confidential communication, intended for the general benefit of the afflicted ; and especially for the service of those of them who apply to the enemy of human diseases [i. e. Sylvan, pseud.] ... To which is prefixed, various information.

  • Sylvan, pseud.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Continuation of the confidential communication, intended for the general benefit of the afflicted ; and especially for the service of those of them who apply to the enemy of human diseases [i. e. Sylvan, pseud.] ... To which is prefixed, various information. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    making ufe of the fame remedies for the diPeaks receiv ed,than it is to expel them totally out of the frame of the unaware beftower. But alio as this flownefs of operation of remedies in one part, and their fpeed- inefs in the other, fhould require confi.derable expla- nation to inform of the truecaufe of thedulnefs of operation ; therefore one is obliged likewife to de- lay them until other writings, and for the moment only give a brief relation of the mod notorious gift received in the purfuit, and on that fcope, one is con- ftrained to mention as mod palpable and predominant difeafes that have been received—the cutaneous af- fection or fkin diforder, namely puftulous, fquamous, fquabious and leprous eruptions, and alfo to be more clear and plain in the illuUrious denomination, one is obliged to fay variegated itch, added to this valua- ble blifs, the cankerous and cancerous one, and this laft as moft prevalent one; and which nefarious and pertinacious fpecies for feveral years have kept bufy their mortal antagonift, and have likewife in their reproductive quality on his own frame, baffled the moft efficacious refources of nature. Although with regard to this direful reproduction to explain the true caufe, one might attribute it in fome meafure to the unaccountable fatality which for long fpace of time has brought to the contender of the difeafe, to be de- livered of fuch woful fcourge, an innumerable num- ber of the infected of it. But having urged that the diforder is of a contagious tendency, as the aflertion being new, may appear incredible to thofe who have not heard of it before, and confequently doubt of its accuracy; although in this occurrence one might, if the fubject was not too complicated to inveftigate it, inform of the unequivocal and multiplied inftruc- tion that one has received on the matter. But only referring for the moment to have the certitude of this baneful truth, to the experience acquired on the body of theafTerter, one mould have the full conviction of his veracity, when the raging human flefh devourers