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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    ftioiigh fometimes the vicious juices of the body occafion a variety of untoward fymp-* toms, even in cafes where originally the pocky venom was very mild ; this happens in bodies highly fcorbutic, that live much upon high feafoned meats, rich wines, and other hot inflammatory diet, which fire the blood, (harpen the humours, and ren¬ der the pocky fymptoms more corrofive and malignant. The fafety or danger of the patient very much depends upon the greatnefs or feve- rity of the fymptoms, the multitude of the parts affeCted, and the neceffity of thofe parts to life. When the fymptoms are few, and do not affeCt the parts eflential to life, provided the venereal venom does not lay hold of the bones, we may judge the cure will be eafily and fpeedily effected. A more favourable iflue may be expedted from a pox attended with a virulent running, than from a dry pox, without that circumftance attending it : as alfo from a pox contract¬ ed in youth, than in old people. It is aU ways a good fign and promifes well to the patient, where the fcabs and breaking-out appear full on the habit, and their heads rife with an eminence above the fie in, and the want of vital force is the foie reafon why this difeafe fo frequently terminates in E