Aphrodisiacus. Containing a summary of the ancient writers on the venereal disease ... Extracted from the two tomes of Aloysius Luisinus, which by the direction of Dr. Boerhaave, were lately revised and reprinted at Leyden. Together with an index of all others omitted in that collection ... from the beginning of the sixteenth century down to the present time. With a large preface, by Daniel Turner.

Date:: 1736

Credit: Aphrodisiacus. Containing a summary of the ancient writers on the venereal disease ... Extracted from the two tomes of Aloysius Luisinus, which by the direction of Dr. Boerhaave, were lately revised and reprinted at Leyden. Together with an index of all others omitted in that collection ... from the beginning of the sixteenth century down to the present time. With a large preface, by Daniel Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$of them their Preparatives, which they nam'd ConcoFtives or Eigeftives of the fe- verai Humours, with their Purgatives or Evacuants thereof, as alio their Popicks for the Puftules, Ulcers, and Tumours; yet the Strefs was laid upon one or other of the forefaid ProcejJes, in order to the Cure. Vtgo, who was one of the beft Surgeons of that Age, feems to have perform'd all his (and 'tis evident by the great Wealth he ac¬ quir'd, that he perform’d many) in the firft Way 5 but as divers Accidents fell out in thofe early Days of Practice, through Want of due Precaution taken, by which fome weakly People might be endanger'd, and others lofe their Lives, poffibly from the hafty Advance of the Salivation, or from the Tormina of the Guts, with bloody Fluxes thence enfuing, a Diflike was taken thereto by others, and the Remedy cried out againft as fitter for Empiricks than Phyjicians. And if this was cenfur'd, much more the Fumi¬ gation^ which, as us'd by fome at that Time, it could fcarce happen otherwile, but that many infirm or weakly Subje&s niuft be over-let, either through Eeliquium or Suffocation\ the Sick being furrounded with$

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