Practical observations on venereal complaints, or, A plain, easy, safe and certain method of cure without endangering the constitution with mercury : an efficacious mode of curing gleets, seminal or venereal and every other malady of the urinary passage.

  • Neale, Henry St. John.
Date:
1786
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    of the urethra, caufing irritation, and not unfrequently a great debility ever after; by the ufe of fuch medicines, together with mercury, it is not difficult to account for the obftinate gleets, and other maladies of the urinary paffage, which every now and then attack man- kind, and require nice judgment to con- quer. It is afloniffiing, that the unfortunate would luffer themfelves to be fo feverely puniffied, when by a fimple application to the part affected, and the bowels kept gently free, by whatever the patient him- felf pleafes, he obtains a found and ipeedy cure in a few days at fartheft; this time is meant in the worft fpecies of clap. I am happy to inform the public, that I have difcovered fuch a remedy, and it is perfectly innocent in quality, prepared from the Plantain Root, proving highly friendly to the conftitution, and I pledge myfelf to the world for its certainty and efficacy. We need not be furprifed at fuch num- bers being afflidted with gleets, and ob- flrudtions