The history of the early and present state of the venereal disease examined: wherein is shewn that mercury never was necessary for its cure, as well as the injurious consequences that result from its employment; at the same time pointing out approved modes of treatment founded on its pathology / [George Hume Weatherhead].

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853
Date:
1841
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Credit: The history of the early and present state of the venereal disease examined: wherein is shewn that mercury never was necessary for its cure, as well as the injurious consequences that result from its employment; at the same time pointing out approved modes of treatment founded on its pathology / [George Hume Weatherhead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    establishing the true history of a disease, so is a reference to the testimony of facts and circumstances the only sure way of determin¬ ing the best mode of cure. The author, therefore, proposes to him¬ self four principal objects for practical de¬ duction. First, to shew that diseases of the genital organs, contracted by impure inter¬ course, have existed from the remotest records of the disease, and which were cur¬ able without mercury; secondly, that the new disease which appeared towards the close of the fifteenth century was also cur¬ able without mercurv, from the earliest times; thirdly, that to the use of this mineral is attributable the main evils that have been erroneously ascribed to the dis¬ ease itself; and, lastly, that there are several approved modes of treatment, not only exempt from the many disadvantages consequent on the cure by mercury, but equally speedy and effectual.