Volume 1

A treatise of the venereal disease in six books; containing an account of the original, propagation, and contagion of this distemper in general. As also of the nature, cause, and cure of all venereal disorders in particular ... Together with an abridgment of the several discourses, which have been written upon this subject from the first appearance of the venereal disease in Europe to this time, with critical remarks upon them / Written originally in Latin. And now translated into English by William Barrowby.

  • Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766
Date:
1737
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Credit: A treatise of the venereal disease in six books; containing an account of the original, propagation, and contagion of this distemper in general. As also of the nature, cause, and cure of all venereal disorders in particular ... Together with an abridgment of the several discourses, which have been written upon this subject from the first appearance of the venereal disease in Europe to this time, with critical remarks upon them / Written originally in Latin. And now translated into English by William Barrowby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tnany mifcarriages they gain’d their experience^ and by what degrees and dangers they came to the knowledge of the following propofitions, which were neither forefeen nor expecfted by the practitioner, which long feem’d doubtful to ma¬ ny becaufe of their novelty, and at laft came to be affented to by all^ as being founded upon moft certain experience. 1. nat the Venereal Difeafe is a kind of diftem^ fer^ which cannot he fpontaneoujly hred in our clU mate by any error in diet^ or other depraved Jlate of the non-naturals *, hut is produced and perpetua-- ted here hy a fort of morhifick fewel originally brought from abroad^ which is of a lafiing nature^ or rather is conflantly renewed; which circum- fiance before the coming of the Venereal Dif¬ eafe amongft us, was never affirm’d of any o- ther kind of diftemper, or fo much as thought of; which did not plainly appear to be the cafe with the Venereal Difeafe till above fixty years after its appearance; which is now confirm’d by moft certain experience; and which fome are of opinion was formerly the cafe with the leprofy of the Arabians^ fo long as it rag’d in Europe^ and is ftill the cafe with the Afiatick plague, which at fome times makes fuch rava¬ ges in Europe. 2. ^hat this morhifick fewel^ or feeds of the diftemper, which they call the Venereal poU fon, though it cannot by any means he genera¬ ted in our elm ate, yet if it be any way con» vey*d into the blood, though in the fmalleft and ?noft indifcernible particles, it does there eafily for the moft part increafe, multiply, and gather ft rength which faCl is abfolutely certain in the Venereal Difeafe ; feems to have been formerly true of the infection communicated in the Elephantiafts or a Lepro-