A review of the venereal disease, and its remedies : with an appendix / by Sir William Fordyce.

Date:
1785
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Credit: A review of the venereal disease, and its remedies : with an appendix / by Sir William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on plafters, ointments, fomentations, poultices, the knife, the fweating box, diet drinks, abftinence, and fevere fali- vations ; without recommending, what we have generally found neceffary in fuch a cafe, the ufe of mercurial ointment fo moderately applied as not to break down the habit, or of Peruvian bark, open air, milk diet, and the foft decoc- tions. We come now to his general maxims for the cure of a confirmed pox. This, he tells us, confifts in drawing off all the fat of the body, even to the laft particle ; in which fat, according to his theory, the whole poifon of the venereal malady is lodged. For, continues he, if the leaft particle remains, there is rea- fon to fear a relapfe; fo that, unlefs the oils of the body, and this poi- fon concreted in them, are entirely f* diffolved, and purged off, you can ne- ** ver