Observations on the theory and cure of the venereal disease / By John Andree.

  • Andree, John, approximately 1740-approximately 1820.
Date:
M,DCC,LXXIX
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Credit: Observations on the theory and cure of the venereal disease / By John Andree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other medicines of the fame kind, were pre- fcribed as antidotes for the cure of this difeafe; and by thefe remedies its fymptoms were ufu- ally palliated. The external and internal ule of mercury was next introduced into practice* as the only fpecific for its cure ; but afterwards got into difrepute, on account of the enormous quantity which was thought needful to effedi a proper cure* being often, by the violence of its adtion on the conftitution, fatal to the pa¬ tient ; and frequently leaving the conftitution fo debilitated, as never to recover its former vigour. Since the fifteenth century, when it was difcovered that mercury was a certain antidote, and the only medicine which could be relied on for the cure of this difeafe, various theories and modes of cure have been, at different times, aim oft univerfally adopted and pradtifed in England : moft of which are not fo judi¬ cious as thofe ufed by our anceftors ; for Am- brofe Parey, a fenfible Writer, and fkilful Sur¬ geon, in his Treatife on Surgery, publifhed in 1579? has better ideas on the theory and cure of the Venereal Difeafe, than many authors who have written on it fince that time. The Venereal Diforder has been ufually di¬ vided into, the firft infedtion, or the gonor¬ rhoea ;