Plain direction, &c. for the cure of the venereal disease. Together with efficacious and approved remedies, adapted to every symptom of that dirorder ... Designed, chiefly to rescue the poor ... from the destructive hands of unskillful apothecaries and quack-doctors / [John Wall].

  • Wall, John, 1708-1776
Date:
1764
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Credit: Plain direction, &c. for the cure of the venereal disease. Together with efficacious and approved remedies, adapted to every symptom of that dirorder ... Designed, chiefly to rescue the poor ... from the destructive hands of unskillful apothecaries and quack-doctors / [John Wall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gives great afliftance to the adminiftration of flrengthning medicines where they are judged proper to flop the running, as is fometimes the cafe in ftubborn gleets; but if (as is frequently the cafe) the patient’s fituation in life will not allow him to ad¬ here punctually to thele rules, yet as he values his future health and welfare, let him avoid all fait meats, as pickled pork, hams, fait beef, and the like; for falts of all kinds heighten the inflammation, increafe the virulency, and greatly lengthen the cure of the running, ’till the difeafe either changes into a Pox, or is attended with an incur¬ able gleet, and for the fame reafons he muff avoid too great an indulgence of all relish¬ ing acids, rich fauces, and fpirituous li¬ quors, as things of the moil pernicious na¬ ture to thofe that labour under a virulent clap. Exercife in a clap while the difeafe is re¬ cent, muft frequently be attended with very bad confequences, for by violent mo¬ tion the body is heated, and the blood in¬ flamed, whereby both the pain, fcalding of the urine, and virulence of the running are increafed; therefore I would advife the patient during the firft fortnight or three weeks of his cure, to avoid riding, much walking, jumping, and the like, which exafperate the fymptoms very much, and to