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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    tionably to be augmented, by fuch multiplicity of Forces united. Pil. Aluminofe^ as alfo his Electuary of that kind, I have recited already among my foregoing Hiftories. He has another Pill, which he exprefsly names Pil. ad Gonorrhceam. Thus fet down from his own Refcript. R Sacch. Saturni, Camphors ana gij. Calomel\ pp. /. Maf. cum Terebinth, ut exinde formeniur Pil. N° 120. But obferve here, that this which he calls an efficacious Medicine, is undoubtedly one of the moll injudicious of any we meet with, and ought to be expunged the Book, Calomel having no- thing to do in limple Claps, and Camphire lefs if poffible. Not to mention, that the former thus given with the Sacch. Saturn, which has as little to do here-as the others, mull render it (as he allows himfelf) moll uncertain in its Operation; nor can it fcarce have other effe<5l than cauling {linking Chaps, and bringing on a Spitting. So that he did well to remark under this Prefcripti- on, that it will require a great deal of Skill to ma^ nage, I may add furely, and all that will not pre¬ vent Mifchief at fome times from the fame. His Fondnefs of Camphire we have formerly remarked, which, according to him, exceeds even Mercury itfelf in Venereal Diftempers; and is moll excellent in fome others, particularly the Gout: So that by thus blending them, we are to fuppofe their Vis unit a will render them Hill for- tior. But why the Sacch. Saturn, is added, I fee not, unlefs to fpoil the Operation of both ; nor truly can I perfuade myfelf, but that by thus ta¬ king Calomel with a Cathartic, the Patient mull be put unawares into a Salivation. Now for the Hh 3 PH