A new discovered fact of a relative nature in the venereal poison / [Jesse Foot].

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826
Date:
1790
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Credit: A new discovered fact of a relative nature in the venereal poison / [Jesse Foot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as this in my poftulatum. I only defire your acquiefcence to the belief, that from a cut or fore upon the finger, practitioners in midwifery have been infedted in confe- quence of their examining women who were pregnant, and who at the fame time pof- ieffed one of the two fymptoms, or both gonorrhoea and chancre. And I defire your acquiefcence to the many fatal inftances, to the fatal ravages which have been committed in confequence of the local venereal action from tranfplanted teeth, which teeth to all appearance were found and beautiful in the fockets of the original poflefior, and which teeth ^might have been fhifted from one focket of the original pofTeffor to another, without bringing forward any baneful ef¬ fects from the bare removal of them. I * , * ■ , » truft that you are in want of no further arguments to prove, that the venereal poi- fon may b$ propagated by inoculating a found fubjedl with the venereal fluid of a fttbjeft