A treatise on the venereal rose. / By William Butter, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Member of the Medical Society, both Edinburgh.

  • Butter, William, 1726-1805.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal rose. / By William Butter, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Member of the Medical Society, both Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    fymptom of the difeafe and in warding com- plications and every bad confequence, except fometimes a gleet. After what hath been faid, it is the lefs to be wondered at when I affirm that, befide curing the difeafe in question, I have never yet feen the hemlock-mafs fail to improve at the fame time the*health and ftrength of the patient when both had been deficient. It has even in fo fhort a time as is requifite for the cure of the Venereal Rofe reftored the urine to a full ftream when that had been wanting from the time of a former cure. As this medicine had never difcovered to me any direct tonick power I believed that its effects were the more eafily fruftrated as above by intemperance of any kind. On this account as foon as the inflammatory fymptoms were gone I began early to combine