The practice of salivating shewn to be of no use or efficacy in the cure of the venereal disease, but greatly prejudicial thereto, or, The antivenereal virtue of mercury prov'd to be independent of any salival evacuation ... / By M. Chicoyneau ... Illustrated with notes and observations; and confirm'd with instances of the success of this method in England by C. Willoughby.

  • Chicoyneau, François, 1672-1752.
Date:
1723
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Credit: The practice of salivating shewn to be of no use or efficacy in the cure of the venereal disease, but greatly prejudicial thereto, or, The antivenereal virtue of mercury prov'd to be independent of any salival evacuation ... / By M. Chicoyneau ... Illustrated with notes and observations; and confirm'd with instances of the success of this method in England by C. Willoughby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -ni curable in tender and flutter'd Conftitutions, why nd alfo in ftrong and robult Bodies ? (7.) Perfcns of the largeft Experience in venereal Ci fes, from duly reflecting upon their own Practice, hav ingenuoufly acknowledged that Salivation contribute nothing to the Cure of the Lues; and wilhed to pei form it by a l?fs hazardous, painful and naufeous means declaring themfelves willing to abandon the old Me thod and make ufe of this, would the groundlefs Prejij dice of their Patients allow them, (f) (8.) Upon a careful Examination of the whole mai ter, I was firmly perfuaded that the ufual Method ( Salivating for the Lues was not only infignificant bt prejudicial to the Cure. I, therefore, refolved to pui lue a more gentle Means ; and, la ft Year, made ule ( mercurial Fridtions, at convenient Intervals, to fort Patients; who notwithftanding the vulgar Prejudic. were, manv of them, fearful left a Salivation fhould rii upon them. . • , , It ufually happens, indeed, that thole who have 11 Notion how Mercury adts upon the Body, obfervin venereal Patients to grow wel. after Salivation, prelen ly attribute the Cure to this fenfible Evacuation, wher< of their Eyes are Witnefles. But as philofophical Re? (f) This appears to be far from the Cafe in England, for though I have, f feveral Years, negle&od few Opportunities to mention the Method here recor mended, both to Chirurgeons and Phyficians, I found them almoft wholly una quainted therewith. . -''J\ fonir D