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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    i; [ S’z } i Baden bath was ordered for the patient; he began the ufe of this bath, but whiiC he was in it the third time, he was feiaed with k a.palfy in one fide, therefore he returned to Vknna. .. > The pain's were fo violent, that, altho he had loii the motion of one fide, he loudly complained of thenu . , The patient was found in this'fituation by a very eminent furgcon, who (hewed him to me^ and then, by the advice of a very fkilful phy- fician, my gummy mercurial was prcfcribed . for him, with the deco6lion of farfaparill^; and milk ; the ulcerated tumor was drefTed with the balfamic mercurial ointment. On the third day the patient could move his' fingers more eafily, and with lefs pain, the ulcerated tumor on the rib began to difcharge more pus. On the 14th day the gummi was fefolved and cured: the venereal pains and palfy dif- appeared in four weeks. A fciatic pain, how¬ ever, (fill continued, for the cure of which a very eminent phyfician prefcribed pills pre¬ pared from the gummy mercurial, hemlock and camphor, and in three days aftei the pain entirely left him.