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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    Compofition, which would do as well for our Purpofe, if that alfo was left out. Xnjedlio altera ad eandem, Ibid. R Tereb. Ven. gii. folve cum q. f. Vitel. Ov. & incorporentur cum 01. Lini Ji. pofiea infundendo Aq. Hord. tfei. fit pro Injedtione. This, to ufe his own Words, is much the fame with the old Potio alba \ but whether thus ufed, it will do the Service he infinuates, I mud leave to thofe who think fit to try it, to report the Succefs, having very little Faith therein my felf, upon a View of the Compofition •, nor can I fee why the Oil, which I fuppofe is put in for the better Mixture, fhould be added, fince it will incorporate well enough without. The lad: under this Head to detain you no lon¬ ger, which I fhall communicate to you, is that bearing the Name of Tindtura Veneris. R Vivid. Airis gi. Spir. Sal. Ammon. Es? Spir. Vin. ana fb. infunde donee cxruleum Colorem ac- quifiverint, & filtretur vel decantetur Pindiura. This too is fet out as a mod admirable Injec¬ tion (but he muft furely mean, firft well diluted, or elfe woe to the poor Patient) for this Complaint; and if care be taken, and there be Skill enough to know when the Infection is only in the Ure¬ thra (a nice Point this) a Perfon may be foon and infallibly cured with it: But 5tis advifable (an ex¬ cellent Caution alfo) that Beginners be not too bufy therewith. Obferv, You find the Dodfcor very wavering in his Opinion, as well in refpedt to thefe Injections externally, as the Balfamics inwardly taken ; for Hh 4 fame-