Salivation exploded, or, A practical essay on the venereal disease : fully demonstrating the inefficacy of salivation and recommending an approved succedaneum : illustrated with some remarkable cases ... : to which is subjoined a dissertation on gleets ... : herein are described, not only the most eligible medicines for the cure of venereal disease, but the most powerful to prevent it also / by Charles Swift.

  • Swift, Charles.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Salivation exploded, or, A practical essay on the venereal disease : fully demonstrating the inefficacy of salivation and recommending an approved succedaneum : illustrated with some remarkable cases ... : to which is subjoined a dissertation on gleets ... : herein are described, not only the most eligible medicines for the cure of venereal disease, but the most powerful to prevent it also / by Charles Swift. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ »7 -3 Of all the non-naturals, a due regulation of the padions mull be very ftriCtly attended .to; nay, it will be found indifpenfably ne- .celfary, as without it no cure will ever be ob- tained ; indeed, it will generally prove one .grand edential in the cure of many female complaints. -That the vagina uteri, and its vicinities .are very liable to great deductions is fuffi- ciently evident from the difeafe juft now men^ tioned, which in general does not make its appearance before the age of puberty; feme females however, even in the infant ftate, experience fo great a dow of humours as to produce a difeharge, in colour, not un-? like the gonorrhaeal one, and frequently acri- monious enough, to occadon much indam- mation, pain, and tumefaction in thefe parts. Several inftances of this kind have fallen un- der my infpedion, and upon enquiry, I have generally found that the complaint arofe from either a fcorbutic or a fcrophulous humour. Emollient fomentations and cataplafms, af- fifted with gentle purgatives, and mild alte- ra; ts, will foon abate the fymptoms, which generally difappear in the courfe of a few . days;