Essays on medical subjects, originally printed separately; to which is now prefixed an introduction relating to the use of hemlock and corrosive sublimate; and to the application of caustic medicines in cancerous disorders / By Thomas Gataker.

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769.
Date:
1764
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    particular injections, as I was to confute the fame notion about particular bougies. Indeed all fuch pretences, however they may ferve private purpofes, are hindrances to the ad¬ vancement of true knowledge, by taking off men’s attention from the obfervation of real truths, and directing their views to falfe ob¬ jects. The purfuit of this fubject might lead into a general enquiry of falfe pretences to extra¬ ordinary ways of curing venereal complaints. Numerous inftances would readily occur, as the venereal difeafe is one of the principal re- fo urces of quackery and phylical impofition. The apprehenfions with which raoft men are affeCted on the flighted occaiions of this kind; the fecrecy which is ufually obferved in the management of thefe diforders, and of courfe the many fcenes of ignorance and deceit which pafs unnoticed to the world for fear of ex- pofing the injured party, are circumftances very favourable to that extenfive branch of phyfic. I fhall have occafion to fpeak of thefe more particularlyin the profecution of my fubjeCt, intending next to examine the methods