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.

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1736
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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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    Tbm. II. Aphrodisiacus. 335 per, it is a long Time in one Perfon before it ftiows it felf, and lefs Time in another? Why fome efcape the Infection, where others receive the lame ? And why at its firft break¬ ing out it rag’d lb feverely ? Whilft for the moil Part it is milder in our Times ? And why fo foon as it began to abate of its firft Violence, it fhew’d it felf chiefly in Pus¬ tules about the Head and other Parts? And how it happens that the Difeafe is fo eafily taken from the infe&ed ? As alfo by fome ilill fooner than others? With the Reafon of its tedious Cure ? Why of it felf, or its own Nature, (which is a great Miftake) it never deftroys the Patient ? Tho' he is ne*» yer entirely free his whole Life-time ? And as the Fomes of this ingenite Putrefaction proceeds firft of all from the Air* Food, and Place in which we refide, and whence the Several Species of Difeafes are deriv’d, fo the fame in Time being extinguiflh’d, not only thofe, but this alfo, will terminate, whilft others are brought forth. Nor tho* the Meafles and Small Pox are engender’d of the fame Fomes, yet it does not follow’ that they fhould fo often return, nor continue folong9 por yet fb frequently be reproduc’d, efpe- * daily