An inquiry into the origin and antiquity of the lues venerea : with observations on its introduction and progress in the islands of the South-seas : to which is added, a short view of the various remedies recommended in that distemper, from its first appearance in Europe to these times, with general remarks on the present received modes of treatment / by William Turnbull.

  • Turnbull, William, Jr., 1935-1997.
Date:
[1805]
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Credit: An inquiry into the origin and antiquity of the lues venerea : with observations on its introduction and progress in the islands of the South-seas : to which is added, a short view of the various remedies recommended in that distemper, from its first appearance in Europe to these times, with general remarks on the present received modes of treatment / by William Turnbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Rome in her greateft luxury, at the time when flie was outrivalling every other na- tion in diffipation, when her citizens were addi6led to every fenfual and inordinate gra- tifications, when they were entirely aban- doned to all the exceffes of unlawful plea- fures, were unacquainted with this difeafe, or fo prolific a fubjedl would not hrave efcaped the fatiric pens of a Horace or a Juvenal. Some commentators, indeed, on the firft mentioned poet, have confider- ed the following paffage as applicable to the Venereal Difeafe: * 1 Foeda cicatrix Setofarri lajvi frontem turpaverit oris Campanum in morbum in faciem permulta jow catus. but doubtlefs this is founded on conjeC'- ture. J am inclined to believe that the in- famous difeafe of the Capuans (a people' notorious for all manner of debaucheries gionlbus Africae j fed ab Hifpaniola cum Columbo ad- veftus, hello Neapolitano fe primo manifeftabat. Home's Principia IVIedicinae. * Horat. Lib. L Sat. 5. and