A short account of the venereal disease : With observations on the nature, symptoms, and cure; and the bad consequences that attend by ill management; with proper admonitions to such as do, or may, labour under this misfortune. Together with some hints on the practical scheme, his methods and medicines expos'd, and the gross impositions therein detected. To which is added, a short account of old gleets, and other weaknesses; and the reason why they are so seldom cured: with the author's method of cure. As also an account of specificks; the use and abuse of the name, and how it covers ignorance and a cheat. The whole design'd for publick good. The third edition. / By Joseph Cam, M.D.

  • Cam, Joseph, -1743.
Date:
1719
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Credit: A short account of the venereal disease : With observations on the nature, symptoms, and cure; and the bad consequences that attend by ill management; with proper admonitions to such as do, or may, labour under this misfortune. Together with some hints on the practical scheme, his methods and medicines expos'd, and the gross impositions therein detected. To which is added, a short account of old gleets, and other weaknesses; and the reason why they are so seldom cured: with the author's method of cure. As also an account of specificks; the use and abuse of the name, and how it covers ignorance and a cheat. The whole design'd for publick good. The third edition. / By Joseph Cam, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    many unskilful Men; but as eaeh Man feems to glory in his own Skill in this Point, I believe it wou’d be in vain to endeavour to perfuade fome Men to pro¬ ceed in a manner more Chriftian than they do: If they wou’d obey me, I do allure them, I wou’d avoid all dangerous Proceedings: I wou’d not with one life Sublimate Water internally, and choufe the too Credulous out of their Money, (for fo I mud call felling a Pint of this Water for a Guinea) and at the fame time endanger their Perfons; for who does not know that Sublimate is rank Poifon ? I only defire the Reader wou’d confult the moft learned Dr. Mead on Poifons upon this Head, and fee what Confequences attend the giving of it in¬ ternally; and I believe I lhall terrifie all honeft Men from adminiftring it, and fuch as value their Lives from taking it; and that what is advanced by me here, is not faid Gratis, or out of Envy, the Rea¬ der ftall be convinc’d of, by his Senfes, before I leave this Difcourfe. Nor wou’d I with others give Mercurius Vita, Green Precipitate, and many more fuch dange¬ rous Medicines daily too much ufed in this Town; for in Truth, there is aa E 2 Neceffity,