Volume 1

A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease. To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck ... by William Saunders.

  • Plenck, Joseph Jacob, Ritter von, 1738-1807.
Date:
1767
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease. To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck ... by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » # [ X ] councils of tlie noble L. B. Van Swieten, who employs his whole attention, and beflows great labour in enlarging the limits of medicine, efpecially of what relates to the pra6fice : his attention wholly confifls in this, that the moft efficacious and certain remedies may be daily found out for the benefit and advantage of the unhappy fick, and likewife in totally banifhing quacks, mountebanks, and the avaritious ven^ ders of arcana; while, in the mean time at Pa¬ ris, London, and in other large cities, that rac^ of men are with impunity tolerated, to the common prejudice of mankind, and the re¬ proach of phyfic ; One wife refolution of this eminent man, is, that if any remedy be fufRciently recommended for its great utility, it is immediately publilhcd for the general good, for certainly the private / advantage of one or two perfons is not to be preferred to the common good of our fellow-^ citizens. That this is the fixed and flated opinion of this great man will appear evidently from what he has written formerly on the‘fubje6f of the cancer,* and lately on other fubjeds 'f. The * Setfl. cjoQ. Comment. T. i. p. 901. Forte tamen et in¬ de aliqua fpes effulget, non penitus impoffibilem effe can¬ cri reparationem a partibus fanis ; licet hadenus ignoretur, qua methodo, quibufve remediis, hoe fieri poffit. Quam felix ille qui hoc inveniret ^ quanta poena dignus, qui in¬ ventum celaret, turpis lucri caiifa ? t T. IV. § 1371* p» 729. Sed quifque novit, arcanorum ven-