Volume 2

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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    (^Par.2.c.3 (£)P ar.2.c.2 (f)Par.3.c.i & fuivans. ' ( 454 ) Hgence, yet, notwithstanding, appears a ftranger to medical records. ,, 1. He contends for the antiquity of the Lues / «- nereay that it is coaeval with promiscuous coition, or the off-fpring of a libidinous appetite [a) to venereal pleafures. The contrary to which, has been already proved. . . .., 2. He places the fame in certain imperceptible ani¬ malcules, which he terms vermiculi Vmerely who eat into and feed upon the parts where they are fettered, in which he borrows from the learned Anthony Dei- diery as this laft from Abercromby (b). 3. He propofes what he calls a new method of curing the Difeafe (c), which is by an interrupted courfe of mercurial un£liony and keeping under thefam livationy where the fame rifeth, by cathartic medicines \ which method of proceeding was pradtifed feon after the firft appearance of the Diftemper. Of which fee our Jecond book and feventh chapter. HENRY HA GUE NOT, of Montpelier, and ProfeJJbr in that Univerfityy Published alfo <l dijjertation concerning a new way of cure, with the following inscription, at the Same place, in 20 pages, 8vo. Memoir contenant une nouvelle methode de traiter la Verole. Which method refpedfs chiefly the bathing in warm water, after the manner heretofore ufed before inunc¬ tion 3 which is continued through the whole courfe. Firfl:, having bled and purged the Patient, he is to be anointed in the proper places, after he has Sat in the bath for an hour, and has been well dried, coming out of the Same. Both which are to be repeated each other, or every third day, for a month or longer, in the fame order, unleSs prevented by the falivation ri- fing high, or interrupting the farther proceeding. By this method he propofes the following advan- ta8es: .