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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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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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    [ 39 ] Befides, a fallvation Is very inconvenient'. Is DANGEROUS, docs not glvc a certain t CURE, Is not CRITic AL, not CRH It be excItcd in EVERY Subject,nor Is It neceilary in any. All this may be demonflrated in the follow¬ ing Manner ; d he INCON VENiENciEs arlfingfrom it appear of themfelves, when we confider the tediouf- ntfs of the application of the undllon, the in¬ flammation of the throat that frequently attends it, the fever that is always prefent, a necelTary » abftinence from almoft all kinds of food, an uninterrupted difeharge of fallva for fix or more weeks, a continual fear of fuffo- cation upon the lead expofure to cold, trou- blefome exulcerations of the throat, a fiinking breath, and finally the body emaciated after the cure. I fhall fay nothing of the confe- quences arifing from a confiant confinement, at home, from the putrid atmofphere that conftantly furrounds him in his cham¬ ber, and befides of his being deprived of the company of his friends. Nor need I add more fince * Van Swieten, has with fo much clcarnefs pointed out the inconve¬ niences arifing from a falivation. But a falivatlon is likewife a dangerous pradicc, for the famous Astruc f attells ^ Comment. T. i. ^ 135. p, 206. 207. t hi Ills book on the venereal dil'eafe. ' that