A new method of curing the venereal disease much safer and easier than any hitherto used. With a confutation of the old hypotheses concerning that distemper. To which is added, a relation of two extraordinary cures ... perform'd by the author ... Done out of the French / [Jacques Bouëz de Sigogne].

  • Bouëz de Sigogne, Jacques
Date:
1724
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Credit: A new method of curing the venereal disease much safer and easier than any hitherto used. With a confutation of the old hypotheses concerning that distemper. To which is added, a relation of two extraordinary cures ... perform'd by the author ... Done out of the French / [Jacques Bouëz de Sigogne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . ( 20- A New Method of Curing When melted with Gold it fparkles no more than if it was melted by it felf. And this makes us conjecture that the Sulphur of Tinn is of the fame Nature with that of Gold^ and no Ways combuftible. Borrichins affures us that he has reduced Gold by a fourteenth Nights Trituration, into a Greyifh Powder, which was no more reducible into Gold. He adds likewife, that he has drawn from that Powder by Diftillation with an extraordinary Heat, a Liquor, though in a ffnall Quantity,a of mod: lively Red, which might be more jud- ly call’d the true Aurum Totabile, than the many grofs TinCtures which are called by that Name, and fmell ftrong of Impo- ilure. The Colour of theic Drops and their Sulphureous Odor, do fufficiently demonftrate, that Gold abounds with Sulphur, but a Sulphur which is more concodted and more digeded than that of any other Mettals, whole Texture being looter, and lefs compact, makes them lb much lighter than Gold. Their fixed Sulphur likewife is impure, being mixt with feveral Mettallick Bituminous Sulphurs, with feveral Earthy and Saline Particles, which cannot lo clofely unite to¬ gether, as to be able to bear any Time the Force and Impe- tuoiity of Fire. Neverthelefs the Sulphur of Copper doth not greatly differ from that of Gold and Silver, for it eafily unites with either of them. The Sulphurs of Minerals are not exadbly like thofe of Mettals; thefe lad being both more fixt, and more tenacious; The Sulphur of Salt-Peter comes very near that of Vegeta¬ bles. Vitriol contains a common, and A Hum a Bituminous Sulphur3 and Bay-Salt, and Salt-gemma, a Mineral Sulphur; the Tades and EffeCfs which thofe Salts produce, are fo many Proofs of it; Sal gem. diflblv’d by thofe Watersj which are found within the Bowels of the Earth, and mixt with any Mettallick Sulphur, doth fo drongly unite and ad- Iirre to it, that no Artifice can ever divide them. The Salt which Rivers carry into the Sea, is call’d Sea-Salt; Bitumi¬ nous Sulphur, being mixt with a confiderable quantity of Earth, which hinders it from clofely uniting to any Salt, is not fo fufceptible of Motion, as other Sulphurs are; This likewife makes it unfit of it felf to diffolve any Mettalline Bodv, unleis it