An essay on the venereal diseases which have been confounded with syphilis, and the symptoms which exclusively arise from that poison : illustrated by drawings of the cutaneous eruptions of true syphilis, and the resembling diseases / by Richard Carmichael.

  • Carmichael, Richard, 1779-1849.
Date:
1814
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Credit: An essay on the venereal diseases which have been confounded with syphilis, and the symptoms which exclusively arise from that poison : illustrated by drawings of the cutaneous eruptions of true syphilis, and the resembling diseases / by Richard Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    To SOLOMON RICHARDS, Esq. ^c. ^c. ^c. a'il mWaWMilJlllAllBllHil Ji JltMHpHI My dear Sir, It has been with no small pleasure that I have heard you expatiate on the advantageous and extensive field afforded by the Lock Hospital of Dublin, for the investigation of the Ve- nereal Disease, at a time when my mind was intent upon this very subject, and pursuing the inquiry in the manner you would most probably have prescribed. Such investigation must be esteemed far from unnecessary, notwithstanding the possession of an invaluable remedy, and the recorded experience of more than three centuries. That this disease is still imperfectly understood, is a circumstance too clearly demonstrated by the numerous instances every day to be met with of constitutions broken down, sometimes by its ravaces, but more frequently by the reiterated and long protracted courses of the medicine intended for its relief. In compliance with the language of the day, I have just now called it the Venereal Disease; but I have satisfied myself, and