A treatise on the prevention and cure of the venereal disease : intended to guard the ignorant and unwary against the baneful effects of that insidious malady / by W. Buchan.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1808
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the prevention and cure of the venereal disease : intended to guard the ignorant and unwary against the baneful effects of that insidious malady / by W. Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. The rapid fale of two numerous edi- tions of this book fhews how much fuch aids are wanted, and how ardently they are fought after by the Public. This, indeed, is generally the cafe with works which have utility for their objedt. Though I have no objection to books of amufement, yet I arn determined never to trouble the world with any thing but what I think will be of general ufe. As this publication has greatly in- creafed the number of my patients of a certain defcription, I have been farther confirmed in the belief of the dodtrines contained in the following pages, nor have I found it necefifary to retradt one article of them, which I certainly fhould A 2 have