A dissertation on the effects of mercury on human bodies, in the cure of the venereal disease ... / by George Key, surgeon : to which is added, the extraordinary case of John Bodle, ... wounded at Clifton Moor, ... containing some animadversions on the use of the bark.

  • Key, George.
Date:
MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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Credit: A dissertation on the effects of mercury on human bodies, in the cure of the venereal disease ... / by George Key, surgeon : to which is added, the extraordinary case of John Bodle, ... wounded at Clifton Moor, ... containing some animadversions on the use of the bark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I agree that this contributes greatly to the cure; hut if, on the other hand, we confider the winter fealon in France and Flanders, that the cli- mate is as cold, it not colder, than in England, and that the cure of the diforder, at this time of the year, has, by this method, always happily fucceeded in thefe countries; why not then in England f As fox my part, I cannot account for the rnifcar- riage of it here any otherwife, than in a want of knowledge in the manner of conducting it; fince, it is mani- feft, the cure has been oft-times per- formed in London, by this method ; according to which I have happily cur’d many people fince my return from abroad. I know, in Paris, that there are fome few eminent phyiicians and furgeons, who pretend to cure the Pox, according to this principle, not- withftanding they are abfolutely un- acquainted with the manner of it, as I have had the opportunity of know-