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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    born is punifhed for the vices of its parents. Society itfelf is a fufferer.— Inftead of a robuft and healthy race, men become weak and puny ; are worn out with the fcrophula and other difea- fes, till at length, become unfit for fuf- taining the common functions of life, they dwindle off the face of the earth. It has long been my opinion that much of the mifchief occafioned by the venereal difeafe might be prevented 3 and that whoever effects this purpofe will be one of the greatefl benefactors to fociety. This important purpofe can only be effected by teaching men how to avoid the malady 3 and, when they have been fo unfortunate as to catch the infeCtion, to point out the means by which its bad confequences may gener- ally be obviated. And here I will ven- ture to fay, that if men were taught to do what is in their own power, and had refolution to put it in praCtice, there would feldom be occafion for the phy- fician, and little reafon to dread the con- fequences \