Observations concerning the prevention and cure of the venereal disease; intended to guard the ignorant and unwary against the baneful effects of that insidious malady. With an appendix, containing a list of the most approved medicines / [William Buchan].

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1803
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Credit: Observations concerning the prevention and cure of the venereal disease; intended to guard the ignorant and unwary against the baneful effects of that insidious malady. With an appendix, containing a list of the most approved medicines / [William Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of fmall importance for a man to know when he is properly treated. It is on the ignorance of the patient that the Charlatan prefumes. He knows there is no danger of deteftion while the pa- tient is taught to dread, even the lead dip, in. medical knowledge. A man fhould have at lead as much information about this malady as to know when he has got it. Many have their pockets picked, by taking medi- cines for the difeafe, who never had it -3 while others are differed to linger under the complaint for years, being all the while told that they had it not. I lately faw a remarkable inftance of the latter in a young man, who applied to me to know whether or not he had the malady, as his medical attendant had told him it was no fuch thing. I never faw the lues more drongly marked, and advifed him immediately to begin a courfe of mer- cury, which he did but not being able to obferve a drift regimen, it was ten months before he was well, though his mouth