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
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1786
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a variety of fymptoms, from the earlied: accounts of it to the prefent time. Lit- tle mention was formerly made of the gonorrhoea, or clap, now ufually the fartL and mod; frequent fymptom attending the infection, and other venereal maladies which attack mankind, and in treating of which I beg leave to offer thefe few pages to the public, founded on long pra&ice and experience. But if in the early ages of this diitemper, mankind were not troubled with this more recent com- plaint, the patients were certainly much worfe off, when blindnefs, and obdi- nate indammatien of the eyes, foul dains, and blotches of the ddn, pains, and rot- tennefs of the bones, violent head-achs, and falling off of the hair, were among the firft of the terrible fymptoms brought on in confequence of this almoit univer- fal difeafe; thefe, now, however, but very rarely happen from the beginning, fince the appearance of the clap. \ Whild: the newly imported venom was quickly diffufed all over Europe, the molt rational furgeons took this malady under their mod: ferious condderation, and in A 2 confequence
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