Observations upon the new opinions of John Hunter in his late treatise on the venereal disease.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
1786-87
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Credit: Observations upon the new opinions of John Hunter in his late treatise on the venereal disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    inftance can produce phymofis, paraphymofis, chancre, bubo, fwelled tefticle, affedions of the bladder, chorde ? llill a longer train of fymptoms ? This fad the Profeflbr knows as well as I do, and he will prove to us that he knows it hereafter. It is impoffible for him to illuftrate the firft paragraph by the fecond, or vice verfa* To illuftrate the firft, he produces a moft outrageous, unfuitable comparifon in the vi- per ; and the fecond borrows all its illuftra- tion from the rarity of the circumflance. But the Profeflbr is deficient in the very ef« ence of that which conflitutes a fuccefsful Ikeptick. For where is that halcyon fmooth- nefs in language to charm us ! where the dif- fembling and perfuafive argument that afli^* milates illufion to truth ! Page 41: