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Excerpt from The Book of Private Knowledge and Advice, of the Highest Importance to Individuals in the Detection and Cure of "a Certain Disease" (Venereal): Which if Neglected or Improperly Treated, Produces the Most Ruinous Consequences to the Human Constitution, With Particular, and All Necessary Directions, to a Speedy and Safe Recovery
Tins little volume has been written with a view to disseml nate correct views of the appearances and treatment of those diseases which arise from impure connection of the sexes. These maladies have been one of the severest scourges of the human family, and though less formidable at present. Than in former times, they are still to be classed among the most painful and dangerous of morbid affections. Recent experiments and observations have demonstrated beyond a doubt, that much misconception has prevailed with regard, both to the characters of the disease and the proper mode of treatment, and that an indiscrminate employment of mercurial remedies, has greatly aggravated the symptoms of venerial diseases. Empirics have no where found amore fertile source of profit, than in this class of diseases, and no where have the cruel and presumptuous ministrations of the quack been fraught with greater mischief to the human species. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
