Observations on the different methods of treating the veneral disease / By William Dease.

  • Dease, William, 1752?-1798
Date:
1779
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Credit: Observations on the different methods of treating the veneral disease / By William Dease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extreme divifibility readily admits of it's paffing out of the body by moft of the ex- cretories. I BELIEVE experience will convince us of the propriety, of rather leaving mercury to it’s own free determination, which is ge¬ nerally to the mouth, than ftrive to impede this natural tendency, and turn it’s adtion differently. I am very far from being an advocate for an high degree of falivation, or running the rilk of its many painful and difagreeable inconveniencies : I am convinced, that many dangerous confe- quences proceed from throwing mercury imprudently into patients, perhaps unpre¬ pared to receive it; by which the whole head and face become fo fwelled, and fuch a flux is raifed, as to prevent our admini- ftering a fuffleient quantity of mercury to effeft a cure, by which means, our views are fruflrated. But this is an unwarrant¬ able abiife of mercury, and to which every method of cure is liable, and cannot, with any degree of reafon, be brought as an ar¬ gument againft the method already laid down. Whoever