Observations on the effects of various articles of the materia medica in the cure of lues venerea, illustrated with cases / by John Pearson.

  • Pearson, John, 1758-1826.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Observations on the effects of various articles of the materia medica in the cure of lues venerea, illustrated with cases / by John Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A deco6tion of this wood, made with water, and fometimes with wine,* was adminiftered under every form, and during every period, ot the difeafe; the phyficians direfting at the fame time purgative medicines, at proper intervals ; confinement to the houfe ; vapour baths; and an appropriate courfe of diet, which was commonly dictated with a tedious exaftnefs, bearing the fignature of fuperfti- tion, rather than that'of medical fcience.f This proeds, continued during fix weeks, and often for a longer time, with fuch occafional variations as new circumftances might fug- geft, was long regarded as the moft fafe and efficacious mode of treating patients aiffiided with Syphilis. The advantages which were conneded with this method of cure, were lb commonly be- lieved and acknowledged, that during a con- fiderable period of time, the exhibiting of mercury was not only difeontinued, but the pradice was publicly cenfured, as inefficacious and prejudicial. Many of the moll eminent writers of the fixteenth century contended^ * Lud. Septalii. Animad. Lib. VII. •t Aphrodiliacus. that