An inquiry into the origin and antiquity of the lues venerea; with observations on its introduction and progress in the islands of the South Seas. To which is added, a short view of the various remedies recommended in that distemper, from its first appearance in Europe to these times: with general remarks on the present received modes of treatment / by William Turnbull.

Date:
1786
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Credit: An inquiry into the origin and antiquity of the lues venerea; with observations on its introduction and progress in the islands of the South Seas. To which is added, a short view of the various remedies recommended in that distemper, from its first appearance in Europe to these times: with general remarks on the present received modes of treatment / by William Turnbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    barley-water, deco&ious of burdock, farfa- pajijla, &c *. r r\ With refpedf to the operation of mer- ^ n cury on the fyffem, I apprehend, that it k v affs not fo much by evacuating the Ve- nereal virus, as uniting with it chemi- ^ ^ cally, and forming a compound^ whole properties are rendered perfectly innocent, ^ * and entirely differing from, and indepen- ^ j dent of the qualities which either pf the fubffahces poffejied before their union s and which afterwards may either remain for a length of time in, or be expelled the fyllem. This theory of its operation feems to he the moil rational of any yet fabri- cated.—For was it to pafs off by the lldn, b * Two, three, or four grains of corrofive fublimate, (or according to circumftances) diitolvqd in a quart of vyater^ makes pne of the moft elegant, and at the fame.time moft efficacious injections in a Venereal Go- norrhoea, of any we are acquainted with. For this purpofe it far excels the boafted preparation of lead, .copper, &c. which have all been fo highly extolled in that difcharge. For the above moft excellent injection, I am indebted to Mr. Blizard, whofe long and fuc- cefsful trials of it, confirms the encomiums we have been beftowing upon it. H 2 N \ * N V H' I I a pre-