A critical enquiry into the manner of treating the diseases of the urethra, with an improved method of cure / by Jesse Foot.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
[1781?]
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the manner of treating the diseases of the urethra, with an improved method of cure / by Jesse Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ture who have dudied neither ?—is there more fecurity in applying to a foreigner that we know not of, than to one whofe education we may be informed of?—whofe connections we may learn ?—Is it likely that an adventurer ofno fortune will deal out his fervices cheaper than onefurrounded by his family and friends?and that has every obligation to be honed: ? From whence arifes this prevailing quackery ?—thefe flocks of adventurers ? It is becaufe a regular educated man, graduated in his profeflion through all its extenfive and expen five flages, fears to Hand forth lead: he be ranked in the fame clafs with thofe I have been defcribing. I could dwell longer upon this evil, becaufe I have feen its effect: Yet fome of thefe are countenanced by magidrates and editors. With regard to the antiquity of the venereal difeafe in this country, I am perfuaded to be- lieve that it is to be traced as far back as there are vellum manufcripts treating of phyfick to be produced y but as it is a matter of rather inge- nious enquiry than ufeful, I fliall not here en- ter into the requifite proofs for this my opinion, but refer the minute refearcher to two letters concerning the antiquity of the venereal difeafe, by Mr. William Becket, furgeon, F. R. S. to Dr. William Wagdade, and by him communi- cated to the Royal Society. He will find there that the authorities of John Arden and Thomas Gafcoigne, are too drong for any incredulity to overturn ; the latter of whom was Chancellor of Oxford, in the year 1430. Any quotation from thefe two valuable letters would be de- droying a maderly compofition; they may be found by turning to No. 357, and No. 365, in the Philofophical Tranfadions.