A treatise on the venereal distemper, : containing a method of curing it without salivation, danger, or great expence. With two dissertations ; the first on madness from the bite of mad creatures ; the second on consumptions. With a method of curing them radically. / By Pierre Desault, M.D. ... Translated from the French by John Andree, M.D.

  • Desault, Pierre, 1675-1737.
Date:
1738
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal distemper, : containing a method of curing it without salivation, danger, or great expence. With two dissertations ; the first on madness from the bite of mad creatures ; the second on consumptions. With a method of curing them radically. / By Pierre Desault, M.D. ... Translated from the French by John Andree, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as had been troubled with a Diarrhoea many Years. This Remedy has never failed me, with this Csrcumftance, that fome Patients being weigh'd before they enter'd upon this Diet, I found after they were cured that they had confiderably increased in Weight, which amounted in the Perfon of a Cooper to tea Founds. Finally^ the Patient being arrived at the laft Stage, of whom Hippocrates pronounces, Rune intra breve tempus perituriim afferito>, et ex alvt projliivio periturum. You are to prognofti- €e cate that he wall die foon, and that a Diar- rhoea will carry him off. It is not pru¬ dent to take him in hand. Summa prudentia; pars ejl eorum qui a morbis deviSii funt curati- onem non aggredi, ne temere infamentur ea prat- Jidia qu£ mult is fuere faluti. u It is the high- 44 eft Prudence not to undertake thofe whom the Diftemper has conquer’d, that fuch Means u may not be rafhly condemn’d as have been fa- u lutarv to many. Let the Patient bear the Reproach of having waited too long. It is not to be expe&ed that this Method ftiould perform the Miracle of replacing the Lofs of a conflderahle Subftance, occafioned in the Lungs by the Suppuration of the Tubercles, and by an Ulcer; that extreme Leannefs and a Confumption fhould be cured? when nothing remains but Skin and Bones; or that a Diar¬ rhoea which has reduced the Patient to ex¬ treme Weaknefs and even Fainting, ihould leave Room to attempt any thing. 'The End of the Firjl Volume.