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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    The fame Year a Woman, who was troubl’d with Shan- kers, Puftules, Exoftofes, -£)£. Corifulted Mejfieurs Fournean and Bajfat before quoted : They judged her incurable; and yet in yo days time 1 fo throughly cur’d her, that fhe owns to this day Ike never was better in her Life ; and this without any Avocation from her ufual Bufinefs. In 1718, a Soldier, the Bridge of whole Nofe was rotted, full of Ulcers, &c. was cur’d in two Months, without being hindred from performing his Duty as ufual. Several Lords who knew him had the Curiofity to fee him. The fame Year a charitable Curate of a very large Parifh in Paris, recommended to the Officers of Health belonging to the Alms-Houfes, a poor young Woman, whom they judg’d incurable, and fo lent her back again. This good Pa¬ llor lent for me, and in ten Days time, I put her in a Con¬ dition to go about her ufual Bufinefs, and afterwards fhe was perfectly cur’d. In 1719, a poor Coachman was come out of the Hands of fbme of the Hofpital Surgeons, where he had undergone a Salivation, loft an Eye, had feveral Holes in the Urethra, fo that his water run from him infenfibly; he had Shankers, and a very ftubborn Infomny, and was grown fo lean, that he was really frightful; this was all he got by Salivation. Him I reftor’d to fuch a perfect Health, that he now ferves the Couut De Brancas as Coachman. In 1720, a Woman of about forty Years of Age came to me, whom I judg’d to be in a Confumption, and incurable. The next Day 1 law her with M. De Chirac and Fourneau, who pronounced her Cafe to be Venereal; but though I could not prefently give into their Opinion, I was neverthelefs foon convinced both of my Errour, and of the great Penetration of that great Phyfician. The Woman, afhamed to be fb difco- vered, own’d that about Twenty one or Twenty two Years a* go, fhe had a Clap, and a Shanker, which however fhe pre¬ tended to have been cur’d of. She had not us’d my Remedy above one Month, before fhe was cur’d of her pretended Phtifick, and convinced of her miftake; This made ipe to look