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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    L -U >iiij'PJHi ry be fo great without Salivating, why may not a oper Continuance of it, in this manner, complete a ire ? (d) .1 (4.) On the other hand, the fame Symptoms will fome- mes remain after a profufe Salivation has been ob- in’d: In which cafe, it is certain, the venereal Taint not all carried off with the Saliva. (y.) When a Salivation proves ineffectual in this Di- emper, the molt judicious Pra&ice orders the Patient, ter the Recovery of his Strength, to apply the mer- iriai Unguent in fmall quantities, at proper Intervals, ► as to prevent a fecond Flux at the Mouth ; and this jith very good fuccefs. (e) The molt experienced Phyfi- ,ans are, therefore, fenlible that Salivation not only (lnetimes fails to eradicate the Lues, but alfo that this rand Evacuation ought to be guarded againlt in future ttempts to cure it. (6.) Salivation, becaule of the great danger that at- fends it, is never prattifed upon very ancient or worn- ip Perfons, Infants, pregnant Women, hebtic, highly irophulous or foorbutic Patients, &c. but the Cure of jiefe, when infected with the Lues, is happily commit-? ;d to the prudent ufe of mercurial Fridtions, fo as to rcvent the lealt lalival Flux : But if the Lues be thus _____. I V, . * . ••••; -.U, T jOO We every Day fee furprizing Efteds, both from an internal and external b of Mercury and a proper Regimen. Not oniy Shankers and Puftules, but ve- real Ulcers and Bubos have been cured hereby, without the lead Appearance a Salivation. M Some there are, among us, who find a Cure by continuing to take Mer- 'ius dulcis, after an ineffectual Salivation. curable