Plain direction, &c. for the cure of the venereal disease. Together with efficacious and approved remedies, adapted to every symptom of that dirorder ... Designed, chiefly to rescue the poor ... from the destructive hands of unskillful apothecaries and quack-doctors / [John Wall].

  • Wall, John, 1708-1776
Date:
1764
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Credit: Plain direction, &c. for the cure of the venereal disease. Together with efficacious and approved remedies, adapted to every symptom of that dirorder ... Designed, chiefly to rescue the poor ... from the destructive hands of unskillful apothecaries and quack-doctors / [John Wall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    greafy fcum which in cold weather will congeal like a thin cake of fat. Thisarifes from the oily parts of the blood melting down, and difcharging by the urinary paf- fages; a profufe ftubborn gleet attends fome, a dribling of urine, accompanied with hot fhooting pains others, the pulfe is weak and foft, and from any flight motion beats quicker, more unequal, and as it were in an hurry. The digeftion is bad, fo that the patient is miferably oppreft with wind, which if it does not go off by frequent belchings, occafions fevere cholics. To relieve the patient under thefe infir¬ mities, we muft firft endeavour to reftore the tone of the ftomach, for which purpofe I advifc the following ftomachic draught, to be taken every other day, from which I have often found wondeful effeds. Receipt for the Stomachic Draught. Take tindure of rhubarb prepared with wine, and tindure of hiera picra, each ten drachms, lavender drops one drachm, mix them together into a draught. After this has been taken fome time, to compleat the cure, I recommend the ufe of the cold bath, and the following reftorative tindure. Receipt-