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.
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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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    reality be combined. This being the cafe, we mutt not wonder at the many errors daily committed by the ignorant, or inexpe- rienced in the profefiion. Almo.ft innumerable have been the in- ihnees of reputed rheumatifms, nervous head-achs, wandering gouts, feurvies, de- clines, confumptions, See. See. which, upon a minute invefligation, have been proved to be venereal. A happy circumflance, when this aifeovery is made early enough to fave the patient from an untimely grave ; but alas ! how frequently does the reverfe happen ? This melancholy obfervation is particularly corroborated in the great number of atrophies, or confumptions, by which the inhabitants of this ifland are many of them fuppofed to be deftroyed. This fatality has generally been aferibed to the climate, but 1 am firmly perfuaded, that, upon a ftridt and impartial enquiry, many other caufes may be afhgned ; and amongft them, Venus will be found to have had no fmall lhare. I am induced to be B 2 of