Siphylis. A practical dissertation on the venereal disease, in two parts.... With an alphabetical index prefix'd, of all the antient writers upon the same. To which, after the remarks upon Monsieur Chicoyneau's method by mercurial friction, is added, the author's discourse of gleets. With a prefatory account of Professor Boerhaave's new comments on this disease ... / by Daniel Turner.

  • Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741.
Date:
1737
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Credit: Siphylis. A practical dissertation on the venereal disease, in two parts.... With an alphabetical index prefix'd, of all the antient writers upon the same. To which, after the remarks upon Monsieur Chicoyneau's method by mercurial friction, is added, the author's discourse of gleets. With a prefatory account of Professor Boerhaave's new comments on this disease ... / by Daniel Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Is found more folicitous to embellifh his Difcourfe, with a Shew of geometrical Rea- foning and mechanic Explications, than to furnifh us with proper Inftrudtions, or fome ufeful Hints in Pradtice, by a recital of Cafes, thus faithfully and plainly reprefen ted, will be found only to amufe and prefent us with little other than wafte Paper. I wifh it proves no worfe to fome, who not only mifpend their Time in the perufal, but may poffibly be drawn into fuch Errors by fome miftaken Calculus, or novel Hypothecs, as may prejudice the Sick that fhall after happen to confult them. I have the rather hinted this, for that I find a modern Writer, who has taken upon him to be Nature's Standard Bearer, has thought fit to acquaint us, we are to fet out upon Principle, or frame firft of all fome Hypothecs, upon which to argue, and build our curative hidications > Hippocrates taking the fame Way, rather than from Obfervation. What