An historical and practical treatise on the venereal disease ... illustrated with some remarkable cases ... together with observations on a late publication of Dr. Buchan's ... in which his principles are ... refuted / [C. B Godfrey].

  • Godfrey, C. B
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[1797]
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Credit: An historical and practical treatise on the venereal disease ... illustrated with some remarkable cases ... together with observations on a late publication of Dr. Buchan's ... in which his principles are ... refuted / [C. B Godfrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) judicious obfervation. Hence more than com- mon abilities are often neceffary, perfectly and radically to cure confirmed lues, or venereal complaints which have been improperly treated. The great number of unfortunate victims to ignorance and rapacity which we daily fee, are but fo many confirmations of the truth of this affertion. Formerly, venereal complaints were more violent, and more frequently fatal, than at prefent; this Fas been accounted for by the fu- perior malignity of the nature of the poifon at that time—as experience has fhewn that it after- ‘ wards grew more mild;—this I do not admit to be generally the cafe, as I have had patients un- der my care, whofe cafes have been, in all their different fymptoms, as violent and inveterate as any defcribed by authors of the feventeenth cen- tury ; but it muft be acknowledged that thofe dreadful complaints are by no means fo frequently fatal as in former times. It is by fome fuppofed to become milder by its diffufion through mankind; but I am of opinion, that it is in confequence of the