A NEW 
TREATISE 
ON THE 
VENEREAL DISEASE, 
GLEETS, Seminal WEAKNESSES; 
THE DREADFUL EFFECTS OF 
SELF-POLLUTION,
AND THE 
CAUSES of IMPOTENCY; 
BARRENNESS, &c. &c. 
Directing Methods of Cure, established by 
repeated Experience. 
By J. H. SMYTH, M. D. and Man- 
MIDWIFE. 
The EIGHTH EDITION. 
LONDON: 
Printed for the Author, 1773. 
[Price 1s. 6d.] 



To 
Charles Lucas, Esq; 
M. D. 
SIR,
IT is with the greatest pleasure 
I embrace this opportunity 
to declare the obligations I 
am under to you for part of the 
knowledge I have acquired in my 
profession. 
A2 The

DEDICATION. 
The world likewise beholds with 
pleasure, what an ornament you 
are to physic, and are well con- 
vinced how much it is indebted to 
you for the inestimable improve- 
ment you have made, not only in 
chymistry, but in many parts of the 
materia medica. 
Your success in the healing art 
is sufficient to demonstrate the re- 
fined share of sense you are pos- 
sessed of; and this success not im- 
mediately effected by pursuing the 
common methods, but by your 
just and perfect conception of the 
nature of the human fabric, and 
the diseases it is incident to, ren- 
ders your mode of practice wor- 
thy the attention of every practi- 
tioner. 
I am

DEDICATION. 
I am not at all apprehensive of 
being too free with your name on 
this occasion, your generous disposi- 
tion in being always ready to pa- 
tronize any thing for the good and 
relief of mankind, induced me to 
think this work would meet with 
your approbation and protection; 
and that by this public instance I 
am encouraged to take the liberty 
of declaring myself, with the most 
profound respect, 
SIR, 
Your most obedient, 
And most humble Servant, 
J. H. SMYTH. 
London, 
1765. 



THE 
PREFACE. 
THERE are some things necessary 
to advertise the reader of, by way 
of preface to the following work, 
both in regard to its publication, 
and the particulars wherein it is proposed to 
be more useful to the afflicted than any thing 
of the kind ever yet attempted. 
I am not altogether unacquainted, but 
it must undergo censure; this gives me 
no uneasiness; when I began these few 
pages, I never entertained a thought of 
pleasing the critic; my study was, to be as 
instructive to the diseased reader as in my 
power.
However 

PREFACE. 
However uncouth the stile may be, and 
as incoherently thrown together, I have 
made it a point to adhere to candour, with 
the punctuality which should guide the 
pen of every honest man. Through the 
whole, I have observed carefully to avoid 
making use of any technical expressions, 
least I might not be understood by the 
meanest capacity. 
As this treatise is principally intended for 
the perusal of the diseased, and those who 
have been ill treated, or by taking mercury, 
labour under complaints better known than 
removed, render it highly necessary for every 
circumstance to be explained in the most 
familiar terms. 
My deviating from the common tract of 
treating the venereal disease, gleets, &c. I 
am certain will be condemned by those who 
will not be convinced of their error. How- 
ever, the deviation I really own; for it is 
not always a sign of being right to follow 
with the mob. I must confess I pursued the 
usual method for some time, till experience 
pointed to me the mild, safe, and expedi- 
tious means, which is the cause of this 
publication. 
I would

PREFACE. 
I would not have it imagined I censure 
my brethren of the faculty, I mean the in- 
genious part of them, whose success in the 
healing art daily convinces the world of their 
merit, some of whom I am under many for- 
mer obligations to, and have the greatest re- 
spect for. 
What the reader is to expect in the fol- 
lowing pages I will now give the heads of: 
1st, The motives that induced me to alter 
in opinion from the general rule of treating 
venereal complaints. 
2d, A short account of the present mode 
of practice; a practice that should be dreaded 
as much as the most malignant symptoms of 
the disease. 
3d, I have endeavoured to describe the 
villany of the impostors which reside in this 
city, who through their pretensions to physic, 
rob numbers, not only of their money with- 
out being of any relief to them, but many of 
their lives. 
4th, I have given the learned doctor 
Astruc’s account of the origin of this dis-
a temper,

PREFACE. 
temper, with his observation on the different 
changes it has gone through since its first ap- 
pearance in Europe. 
5th, The nature of the venereal virus, 
what parts are most susceptible of receiving 
it; and how the disorder is divided into the 
first and second stage. 
6th, An accurate description is given of 
the venereal infection, from the slightest taint 
to its most morbid state, laid out in such 
a manner, that every person may be a 
judge of the nature and situation of their 
complaint; and how unnecessary, nay pre- 
judicial, it is to administer mercury in most 
venereal cases. 
7th, The reader is made acquainted 
with a new invented medicine, with its 
comparative excellence to all other remedies, 
it proving more efficacious in eradicating 
this infection than any other remedy ever yet 
discovered. 
Lastly, Some account of gleet and seminal 
weaknesses, occasioned by severe treatment 
in the cure of the venereal disease, or by 
that base practice, seif-pollution, &c. &c. 
shewing

PREFACE. 
shewing how the patient is variously affected, 
and the method of cure, by a restorative re- 
medy, a medicine that has relieved thousands 
in the most desponding situation. 
Thus, reader, I have given you a sketch 
of this treatise, and am in hopes, that force 
of truth, and the reflections which men of 
reason shall make upon the subject, will be 
sufficient to justify me, and protect this work, 
which is the result of a long experience; 
and that the remedies I offer, will some time 
or other have the preference to all others 
that are in use, for the benefit of mankind. 
A NEW



A NEW  
TREATISE 
ON THE 
VENEREAL DISEASE, 
ONANISM, 
GLEETS, SEMINAL WEAKNESSES, &c. 
THE introducing of medicines to the 
public by way of publication, is 
so much the characteristic of a 
quack, that I should think it be- 
neath my notice. The world, I suppose, will 
take the liberty to criticise and rank me 
among the impostors that crowd this metro- 
polis: this gives me no concern, censure I 
despise; my intention is to relieve my fel- 
low-creatures, and rescue their constitutions 
B from

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from Mercury and base compositions, the 
destruction of thousands! 
The opportunities I have had when I 
had the honour of attending some of his 
majesty’s forces, furnished me daily with 
a number of objects labouring under this 
dreadful malady, from the slightest infection 
to its most malignant state. For some time 
I pursued the beaten path of practice, severe 
purging, mercurials, &c. &c. and really 
must confess my cures were tedious, and 
my patients obnoxious to themselves and 
others. The ill effects this method of treat- 
ing venereal complaints met with, and struck 
with compassion for mankind, was conse- 
quently the cause of the deepest cogitations, 
I consulted the opinions of authors of the 
first eminence, and by their assistance, and 
the experience I had obtained, I fabricated 
a remedy, which gave me more satisfaction, 
by expediting my cures, and that with 
greater ease to my patients than the present 
methods, which rather injure than assist the 
afflicted: animated with this success, I, with 
the utmost assiduity in a series of experi- 
ments, came to a perfect knowledge of the 
venereal infection, and method of cure; and 
having with no small pains acquired this 
mild

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mild efficacious composition, I gave it with 
the greatest accuracy and speculation, and 
found it in every respect to answer my most
sanguine wish. 
However odd and extraordinary my de- 
viating from the general rule of treating this 
disease may appear, the deviation is abso- 
lutely necessary; it is founded on reason, 
and the result of a successful practice. My 
enemies, I make no doubt, will give me 
the appellation of a dealer in nostrums, but 
I beg leave to assure the unprejudiced reader, 
that the basis of this medicine is pointed out 
by some of the most learned professors that 
ever appeared in physic, though the compo- 
sition never before discovered. 
Before I proceed further in this discourse, 
I beg leave to make some observations on 
the present mode of treating venereal com- 
plaints. When the injured person first per- 
ceives the infection, which he will suppose 
to be of a mild nature, viz. a running of mat- 
ter from the urethra, probably attended with 
a heat of urine, &c. the afflicted person then 
seeks for a cure, which is generally con- 
ducted in the following manner: severe 
purging and strong mercurials for some time, 
B2 until

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until the patient is reduced to follow a state, 
that he is hardly able to cross his chamber:
the complection of the skin daily changes, 
the teeth are totally spoiled, and the breath 
becomes so offensive, that it is next to an 
impossibility to come within some yards of 
the diseased person: in consequence of this 
purgation, the heat of urine may be some- 
what abated, and the other symptoms appear 
more mild; the patient is now assured he is 
almost well, and the running is immediately 
endeavoured to be stopped by injections, or 
some other means equally as detrimental. 
What must then be the result of such pro- 
ceedings? The disorder now changes its 
course, the discharge pointed out by nature, 
to carry off the venereal virus being stopped, 
the poison conveys itself to the blood, and in 
combination with the mercury, torments the 
unhappy patient in various manners; conti- 
nual or flying pains seize the head or limbs; 
the eyes become sore, the palms of the 
hands dry and hot, ulcers in the nose, 
throat, or private parts; blotches, scabs, or a 
dry scurff appears on the skin; swellings in 
the groin called buboes, and many other 
symptoms, which will be taken notice of in 
due course: this last symptom, however, is 
the most favourable, the venereal poison 
being

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being thrown by a critical discharge from the 
blood on the conglobate and lymphatic glands 
of the groin, and, if properly managed, will 
shortly relieve the patient; but the operation 
of the knife or caustick (which, by the bye, 
is absolutely necessary) and being terrify- 
ing circumstances to the patient, he readily 
agrees to have it put back, not knowing the 
consequences that ensues from this rash step; 
the infection is thrown a second time into the 
blood, where it perplexes the patient in dif- 
ferent ways, as before-mentioned. 
The diseased person by this time finds 
himself in a worse situation than at first, 
and is now probably induced by some pom- 
pous advertisement, which daily appears in 
the news papers, offering one pernicious 
compound or another, laid out to delude the 
unwary; I say this bait he readily swallows, 
and innocently perseveres in, until process of 
time convinces him his money is thrown 
away, and his constitution reduced to the 
lowest ebb; a consumption next succeeds, 
which acts the friendly part, for in a short 
time puts a period to the disorder, and the 
unhappy sufferer’s life. 
Our patient being now cured effectually, I 
shall

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shall next proceed to give a short detail of 
quacks, and their medicines, which by the 
following occurrences, the reader may ascer- 
tain a knowledge of a set of people he pro- 
bably thinks does not exist. 
A gentleman of fortune who had in his 
juvenile days contracted the venereal in- 
fection, and had reason to imagine he had 
been unskilfully treated, and that the poison 
still remained lurking in his blood, sent 
for a famous Empyric, who, with a boasted 
nostrum made his appearance within these 
few years; the gentleman explained his 
case, and asked this genius if he could relieve 
him without the assistance of mercury, ha- 
ving been sufficiently tortured with that un- 
merciful mineral already; to this he answered 
in the affirmative, upon which the gentleman 
consented, and the cure immediately pro- 
ceeded on, which was managed with such 
dexterity, that the patient was in a high sali- 
vation in a few days; not a little exasperated 
at finding himself deceived, and in such a 
situation, he sent for this wonder of the age, 
who declared there was not a single particle 
of mercury in any of his medicines; but that 
they were expelling the mercurials that had 
formerly been taken: wonderful, indeed,
must

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must be the remedy, that in a few days will 
carry off, by the salival glands, the relicks of 
mercury that had lain for years, and probably 
baffled the endeavours of every rational 
means! but what was this famous composi- 
tion that had this singular effect ? Seven grains 
of mercurius dulcis, or sweet mercury, mixed 
with a little conserve of roses, in the form of 
a bolus, and given every other night until 
the patient was brought into the state men- 
tioned.—This story was told me by a person 
of veracity? who prepared and administered 
the medicines according to the quack’s di- 
rection. 
As another instance: 
Some few years ago a lock in my house 
being out of order, I sent for a neighbouring 
smith, who frequently did jobs for me; on 
my servants return, he told me, that this 
man was sent to prison for debt: in a short 
time afterwards, I met this honest Vulcan, 
dressed with a tye wig, sword, &c. This 
metamorphosis surprized me much, and when 
I came home, I enquired of my servant, how 
the smith lived since he came out of goal? 
He told me he had commenced doctor, and 
produced a hand bill, wherein he recom- 
mends himself to the world as a physician of 
upwards of forty years practice, arrived from 
Montpelier. 
Another


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Another method of deluding the unguard- 
ed, is also now become notorious: A number 
of these mechanics assemble together, and 
publish themselves under the character of a 
Company of Surgeons, or Doctor such a one 
and Co. setting forth the infallibility of their 
methods after salivation, and every other 
means has proved ineffectual. Such are the 
impostors that abound in this metropolis; and 
is the cause of our hospitals being daily 
crowded with miserable objects, labouring 
under this raging malady; yet they find un- 
thinking people, credulous enough to believe 
in their impositions, until woful experience 
convinces them of their error, when too late. 
It would make several volumes to relate the 
knavish practices of these pretenders to physic, 
whose entire aim is to get money by ruining 
the constitutions of their fellow-creatures. 
These gentry I once thought beneath my 
notice, nor would I have mentioned them 
here, only that I am sensible it is my duty to 
give mankind a caution carefully to avoid such 
a dangerous set of people, and not to split 
upon the Rock which has been the destruc- 
tion of thousands. But to proceed. 
Having informed the reader of the ne- 
cessity for deviating from the present me- 
thod

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thod of treating this disease, and given some 
little account of quacks and their remedies, 
(for which I am convinced they heartily wish 
me hanged) I suppose it will be asked, What 
is my method? To which I answer, Mild 
cathartics, diuretics, and powerful sudorifics;
the means laid down for eradicating the ve- 
nereal poison by men of the first eminence, 
such as Boerhaave, Sydenham, and many 
others, whose names I would take the liberty 
to mention, and insert their candid observa- 
tions, only that it would swell this piece 
much beyond what is intended; therefore I 
shall just take notice of the rise, progress, and 
present state of the disease.
Most authors that ever wrote on the vene- 
real disease, differ in opinion relative to its 
origin; the learned Doctor Astruc tells us, 
that it was unknown to the antients, and 
says it was formerly endemial in the West- 
Indies; and that it was imported from thence 
by the Spaniards that accompanied the fa- 
mous Christopher Columbus in his return 
from the discovery of the new world; and 
that it made its first appearance in Europe 
between the years 1494, and 1496. The 
Doctor also considers the different periods 
and changes it has already undergone, and 
observing it has grown gradually milder and 
C milder


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milder since its first appearance, he ventures 
to prognosticate concerning the future periods 
of it, so as to give us hopes, that it may in 
time be utterly exterminated; but future ages 
must determine this. It is no ways essential 
to our present purpose to enter into a prolix 
detail how the venereal disease formerly af- 
flicted the patient, but endeavour to explain 
its present symptoms, and method of cure. 
The venereal disease is now distinguished 
by the first and second stage, or local and 
universal; in the first stage, or what is 
called local, the venereal poison is supposed 
not to exist within the limits of the cir- 
culation, but to be confined to some parti- 
cular part of the body, the blood itself re- 
maining uninfected. In the second stage, 
or what is called universal, the infection 
is received into the blood, and circulating 
with it, mixes with the several secretions, 
and renders the whole habit tainted. There 
is great difference with respect to the de- 
grees of malignity in the venereal poison; 
in some people it shall be hid a long time, 
without producing any sensible effects; in 
others it will appear in a few days, and 
discover the highest signs of virulency. 
This difference depends in a great measure 
on the constitutions of the persons com- 
muni-

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municating and receiving the infection; in 
people of a cold constitution, the active 
particles of the venereal virus is sometimes 
so diluted or fixed in viscid humours, as to 
be capable of acting but in a weak degree; 
therefore, when this is the case, the symp- 
toms are of a mild and gentle nature, and 
slow in producing its effects. On the con- 
trary, when the virus is more exalted, as 
happens in hot and bilious constitutions, it 
will be capable of acting in a greater degree, 
and occasion more inflammatory and malig- 
nant symptoms; but this difference will be 
greater when the constitution of both parties 
correspond with each other. Thus much 
may suffice for the nature and difference of 
the venereal virus. 
There are several ways of contracting the 
venereal infection; a disordered nurse can 
infect the infant that sucks her; and on 
the other hand, if the child be infected, it is 
capable of communicating it to the nurse. 
It may be likewise contracted by kissing, 
when the mouth or lips of the diseased 
party is affected with venereal sores and 
ulcers. 
It may also be contracted by laying in the 
same bed with a person who has pocky erup- 
C2 tions

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tions on the skin, the warmth of the bed 
opening the pores, and increasing perspiration, 
the volatile particles of the infected matter 
are absorbed. 
It is likewise caught by handling venereal 
sores, if the skin is by any accident razed 
or opened. For instance, a midwife who 
had a small cut on one of her fingers, was 
called to deliver a woman, who happened 
to be infected, having venereal ulcers on her 
private parts; the venereal matter flowing 
from the ulcered parts, was received into the 
wound of the finger, the infection thus caught 
ran to a very high degree, and was cured un- 
der my inspection. 
But the most common way of contracting 
the infection is by coition. If this disease 
come from the parents, it is called here- 
ditary; but if got by any of the afore- 
mentioned contracts, it is called acquired; 
in the former it generally breaks out in any 
part of the body; in the latter it commonly 
discovers itself first in the parts by which 
the infection was received. The parts that 
most readily receive the infection are those 
of a spongy texture, and covered with a thin 
skin, such as the lips, the mouth, the geni- 
tal parts; so that when the disorder is com-
municated 
 

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municated by contract, some of those places 
are usually first infected, and discover the 
first symptoms of it. 
Thus when the nurse contracts the in- 
fection by giving suck, heat and inflam- 
mation about the nipples and breast, are the 
first symptoms, until severer ones appear. 
When the infant sucks it from the nurse, or 
a grown person gets it by lascivious kissing, 
the lips and mouth are the first part affected: 
but as coition is the most common way of 
contracting it, so the first symptoms of it 
appear about the genital parts. By this 
we may conclude, where the infection is 
first caught, there it generally makes its first
appearance. 
Having now considered the nature and 
difference of the venereal poison, and the 
different ways it is communicated, and how 
apt particular parts are to receive it, I shall 
next give an account of the nature, symp- 
toms, and cure of the infection. 
Of

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OF A 
Gonorrhoea or Clap, called Local: 
OR, 
First Stage of the Venereal Disease. 
THIS generally makes its appearance 
in a few days after a connection with 
an infected person. 
First, an unusual pain is felt about the 
genital parts, afterwards a few specks of 
matter appear on the linnen; and as it comes, 
a titillation is felt in the part, which is like- 
wise perceived in making water, and gradu- 
ally increases to a degree of heat and pain: 
as-the disorders proceeds, other symptoms fol- 
low, the erection becomes involuntary and 
frequent, especially when in bed, the running 
daily increases, and is either of a whitish, 
yellow, or green colour; the heat of urine is 
extremely acute, and frequent desire to make 
it, though with the greatest difficulty, inso- 
much that it is only voided by a few drops; 
a convulsive contraction is felt under the 
penis, as if it was pulled downward by a 
cord; this happens at the time of erection;
and 


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and gives the patient intolerable pain; the 
running is generally more and more plentiful 
and fœted, not much unlike the discharge 
from a cancerous ulcer; phymosis, paraphy- 
mosis, chrystalines, and shankers, are symp- 
toms that probably next make their appear- 
ance; the phymosis is, when the prepuce, 
or skin of the yard is contracted over the 
glands, so as not to be drawn back; the 
paraphymosis is just contrary, or when the 
prepuce is behind the glands, and contracted 
in such a manner as not to be brought for- 
ward; phymsises, may be, changed into pa- 
raphymoses, if the skin be drawn backwards, 
when it first begins to tighten and contract. 
Chrystalines are bladders that appear on the 
prepuce or glands of the yard, which are 
transparent and red, sometimes of a darker 
colour. 
Shankers are little callous eating ulcers, 
occasioned by the venereal virus, and may 
happen either with or without a gonorrhœa. 
They commonly appear in the following 
manner: first, there arises a little red pim- 
ple, pointed at top, and replete with a yel- 
low or whitish matter; these are generally
hot and itch, and when they break, pro- 
duce little stubborn ulcers, whose bottom 
is usually covered with a viscid mucus. At 
length


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length hardness and loss of substance is the 
most certain sign of them: these ulcers, 
according to the malignancy of the disease, 
or the patient’s habit of body, have their 
different appearances; when they arise on 
the glands of the yard, or inside of the 
prepuce soon after an impure contract, these 
parts being covered with but a thin skin, 
affords an easy admittance to the vene- 
real poison, these shankers are local ; but 
when they appear in other parts of the 
body, the complaint is of a long standing, or 
what is called, the universal or confirmed 
pox; when so, they are generally in clusters, 
and more callous, though probably not so 
painful. 
Another symptom that appears is ve-
nereal buboes, these are swellings or tumours 
that arise in the groin, immediately con- 
veyed to this part by impure coition, or 
else thrown upon it by a critical discharge 
from the blood: when these tumours hap- 
pen immediately from impure coition, in 
a few days after having had to do with 
a suspected person, the patient perceives a 
slight pain or stiffness in the one or both 
groins, especially in walking; by degrees 
the swelling increases, and at length there 
appears a manifest bubo, which is some- 
times


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times round or oblong; sometimes the 
size of an egg, and sometimes much larger; 
but when they arise in any considera- 
ble space of time after a connection with 
an infected person, especially if they are 
attended with a sore throat, venereal ulcers, 
and the like, they are certain signs of a 
confirmed pox. A bubo may also arise 
from a virulent gonorrhœa being impru- 
dently stopped, or when the discharge is 
too small; and if these buboes are not timely 
managed, they shortly bring on an universal 
infection. 
It frequently happens in the first or 
second stage of the disease, that one or 
both testicles become swelled, painful, and 
inflamed, occasioned either by the venereal 
matter not discharging itself through the 
urethra, or stopped and restrained by a 
natural cause, or by astringent injections, 
&c. or the venereal poison being con- 
cealed in the blood, mixes with the semen, 
and becomes inspissated, and will cause 
an obstruction, and stagnate in the spermatic 
vessels. 
There is another species of the infection, 
improperly called the dry gonorrhœa; this 
D affects


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affects the patient by a violent heat of urine, 
with a small, or little or no running; some- 
times attended with a strangury. 
There is another kind of venereal com- 
plaint that is the product of a recent infec- 
tion; this is a discharge of a purulent thickish 
matter not from the urethra, but from the 
corona glandis, which is commonly painful 
and inflamed; this complaint was formerly 
taken notice of by doctor Sydenham, and 
since his time by doctor Turner, and other 
practitioners. 
There is also a number of excrescences 
that arise about the anus, sometimes appear- 
ing like the gills of a cock, and sometimes 
make other appearances; sometimes soft, at 
other times hard; the former generally in- 
flame and suppurate, the latter grows can- 
cerous, especially by using irritating applica- 
tions; which is often the occasion of bring- 
ing a sistula in ano: but these excrescences 
are more often caused by a confirmed than a 
local infection. 
Having now given a brief description of 
the principal symptoms of the first stage of 
the venereal infection, I will proceed to give 
an

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an account of the second stage, I mean that 
part which will be necessary for the instruc-- 
tion of the diseased; so that they may ascer- 
tain, with some certainty, a satisfactory 
knowledge of the situation of their com- 
plaint. 
The venereal poison, after having infected 
the parts by which it enters, may be con- 
veyed into the blood two ways; either by 
the circulation of the blood itself, which in 
passing by the confines of the parts affected, 
take up and carry off some of the virulent 
particles along with it, or else by the circu- 
lation of the lymph, which in its return 
from the parts that first imbibed the infec- 
tion, conveys the virulent matter along with 
it, first into the lymphatic glands, and after- 
wards into the blood. 
The several disorders of the genital parts 
increase, or become more malignant, or break 
out again, after being probably pronounced 
cured, or else arise anew where they have 
not been before. If the patient is afflicted 
with a gonorrhœa, the discharge increases, 
and becomes more acrimonious, and all the 
inflammatory symptoms increase likewise. 
If the genital parts, or the anus are affected
D2 with

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with shankerous ulcers, or excrescences of 
any kind, though these symptoms are merely 
local, they become more stubborn when 
supported by an infected state of the blood. 
The same may be said of buboes, which, 
after they have been opened, often become 
stubborn callous ulcers. If a person has a 
connection with an infected party, and re- 
ceives the infection attended with all its 
local symptoms, properly cured, it never 
more returns, without a fresh infection; 
but if imprudently treated, which is too 
often the case, the disorder will return, pro- 
bably, in a long time after; not only with 
some, or all of the former symptoms, but a 
tribe of others. A confirmed infection shews 
itself by numberless symptoms, of which 
these are the most common; buboes, swel- 
ling of the testicles, shankers in or about 
the genital parts excrescences of different 
colours appear on the skin, viz. red, yellow, 
lived, particularly on the breast, or between 
the shoulders; also scurffy eruptions, with 
hard callous bases appear in the corners of 
the mouth, and upon the forehead and tem- 
ples, and behind the ears, and from thence 
spread all over the head, and by degrees over 
other parts of the body. In time these pustules 
are covered with broad crusty scabs of a 
tawny


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tawny yellow hue; and when they occupy 
the hairy part, they destroy the roots of the 
hair, and a baldness is the consequence. 
The palms of the hands do now become 
dry and hot, and sometimes cause dry, cal- 
lous itching chops, which discharge a thin 
ichor; when these fissures are dead, the skin 
often separates from the subjacent skin, and 
cast off in a thin scab. 
The nails of the fingers and toes become 
rough, uneven, and ragged; and at length 
inflaming and ulcerating about the roots, 
they loosen and fall quite off; this is a symp- 
tom rarely met with. 
When the disorder seizes the mouth, it 
produces little round stubborn ulcers, upon 
the gums and inside of the lips; the whole 
arch of the fauces become hot, painful, in- 
flamed and ulcerated; the ulcerations spread, 
and eating deep, communicate to the palate 
bones; in consequence of which the breath 
becomes offensive, and the bones exfoliate, 
and sometimes come quite away, so that the 
patient speaks through the nose. 
Pustules

[22] 
Pustules arise also in the palate, and be- 
come ulcers, by which the bones are ren- 
dered carious and perforated, sometimes as 
far as the nose. 
When the disorder attacks the nose, stink- 
ing ulcers fix upon one or both alæ, or 
sides of the nose; the outsides of which are 
generally covered with a hard black scab, 
which comes away in blowing the nose, and 
is followed by a bloody mucus; at other 
times there is no scab at all, but a constant 
ouzing of a thin acrid stinking sames. These 
ulcers often spread, and rot the alæ, cor- 
rode the cartilages, foul the spongy bones, 
and quite destroy the whole bridge of the 
nose. 
Along with these complaints, and some- 
times precedent to them, the patient is fre- 
quently tormented with violent acute pains 
in the head, arms and shoulder blades, shins 
and joints; they generally come on when in 
bed, and go off towards morning these are 
called nocturnal pains. 
Some of these pains are wandering and 
superficial, others of them are fixed and 
deep,

[23]
deep, and greatly resemble rheumatic or 
gouty pains. 
Many unfortunate people have laboured 
for years under the affliction of those pains, 
mistaking them for the rheumatism or gout; 
though, on a strict enquiry, found to be 
caused by the remains of an ill-cured pox, 
or the effects of mercurials; yet I have been 
so happy as to find that by their taking my 
medicines, they have received the most sur- 
prising benefits. 
When the infection is communicated by 
the lymphatic glands, it produces indurated, 
moveable, circumscribed tumours in the nose, 
arm pits, groin, and other parts. 
The eyes and ears are likewise variously 
affected with this disease. 
The eye-lids become rough and angry, 
with a discharge of a sharp, watery matter; 
a dimness of the sight is also felt. 
When the disorder affects the ears, it fre- 
quently causes a hissing, tingling noise, a 
thickness of hearing, and deafness; the in-
ward

[24]
ward parts of the ear inflame, suppurate, and 
are affected with intolerable pains. 
To these may be added many other dis- 
orders, which sometimes arise from a vene- 
real cause; such as heaviness of the head, 
attended with pain, palsy, convulsions, asth- 
ma, consumption of the lungs, jaundice, 
dropsy, piles, hectic, or intermitting fevers 
also some disorders incident to women, as an 
ulcer or schirrous tumour of the womb, fre- 
quent abortions, the exclusion of fœtuses half 
rotten, or overspread with an universal erysi- 
pelas; in short, the venereal disease, in its 
confirmed state, is of such a changeable na- 
ture, that it puts on the appearance of almost 
every other kind of disorder. 
It must be remarked, however, that all 
these symptoms are never met with at one 
and the same time, nor in one and the same 
person; different people are afflicted with 
different symptoms, but one person is never 
afflicted with them all. 
Thus, far, reader, have I given you an 
account of the different symptoms by which 
this complaint affects the diseased person, so 
that you may easily judge whether you are 
at

[25]
at present disordered, or have been ill treat- 
ed, and there remains any taint of the vene- 
real poison in the blood, or if you are tortu- 
red by the baneful effects of mercury. 
The medicine I now offer for the cure of 
the venereal infection, is a composition mild 
in its operation, though powerful in its ef- 
fects; it is a remedy founded on the foundest 
basis of theory, by proving its efficacy by 
thousands of instances, and that without the 
assistance of a single grain of mercury. It 
will probably be asked, Why I only should 
be possessed of this secret? To which I beg 
leave to answer, my extensive practice in the 
cure of venereal complaints, gave me daily 
convincing proofs, that salivations and strong 
courses of mercurial medicines, (by their ill 
effects, and frequently non-cures) were not 
only baneful to the unhappy patients, but 
the method absolutely erroneous, and con- 
tradictory to reason. Every man who expects 
honour or credit by his profession, ought to 
leave no stone unturned in search of the 
surest means to relieve his patient. It was my 
method, for, by repeated experiments, joined 
with opinions of the most eminent authors 
of the physical province, I obtained what I 
sought for; I mean a certain easy method 
E of



[26]
of curing the venereal disease, without in- 
juring the constitutions of my patients, which 
reiterated experience has sufficiently demon- 
strated. 
This medicine is what may be justly 
termed (by its known reputation) the Speci- 
fic Drops, a few of which are a dose, taken 
in any simple liquor; such as a glass of 
water, a dish of tea, capillaire, &c. in which 
as much as can be raised on a silver six- 
pence, of the powder of sal nitri, is to be 
dissolved: this is to be repeated three or 
four times a day, taking about every second 
day a dose of gentle physic, viz. an ounce 
of glaubers salts, or in strong constitutions, 
ten drachms, or an ounce an half dissolved 
in about a gill of warm water; those who 
cannot take the common glaubers salts, may 
take in the same form six drachms to an 
ounce of the sal de signet de Rochel, com- 
monly called the Rochel salts, which is the 
most agreeable of all the saline prepara- 
tions. Those who can by no means what- 
soever let down a draught composed of 
these purging salts, the following composi- 
tion will probably be more grateful to the 
palate, and fit more conveniently on the 
stomach. 
Take

[27]
Take of the infusion of sena, an ounce 
and a half. 
Of the tincture of sena, half an ounce. 
Of the powder of jalop, a scruple. 
Of nitre, 15 grains. 
Of the compound spirit of lavender, 30 
drops. 
Of the syrrup of buckthorn, 3 drachms 
mixed. 
Let this be taken twice a week, drink- 
ing some convenient warm liquor as it ope- 
rates. 
Patients who cannot take a purge in the 
form of a draught, may use these pills, viz. 
from a scruple to half a drachm, or two 
scruples of the pill ex duobus; or common 
purging pill of the shops, made into pills of 
a middling size, and to be taken twice a 
week. Preceding in this manner, and ta- 
king the drops three or four times a day, 
and a gentle dose of any of these purges 
about twice a week, avoiding, at the same 
time, high seasoned and salt provisions, gar- 
den stuff, or any violent exercise; I can 
with the greatest justice affirm, and assure 
the reader, I never knew it to fail to carry off 
all the malignant symptoms of a fresh con- 
tracted injury, in eight, ten, or twelve days, 
E2 with-

[28]
without the least inconvenience to the pa- 
tient; nor are the cures performed by this 
mild, and I may say (if we consider other 
methods) pleasant remedy, succeeded by 
other disorders; which seldom or ever fails 
of being the case, where mercury or severe 
purging has been the means made use of; 
long and stubborn gleets, and often a total 
relaxation of the genital parts ensue; disorders 
better known than cured. 
If the patient is affected with phymosis, 
paraphymosis, buboes, shankers, crystalines, 
&c. external applications are absolutely ne- 
cessary; yet they may be contrived in such 
a manner, that the patient may conduct him- 
self with perfect ease and secrecy. Many I 
have daily under my care, who, before they 
came to me, let their disorder run to a dan- 
gerous length; their situation in life ren- 
dering it almost impossible for them to un- 
dergo the fashionable way of treating this 
complaint, which often exposes the patient 
to the disagreeable circumstance of not being 
able to conceal the disorder. 
Severe purging immediately brings the 
patient to a languid state; for as the learned 
professor Boerhaave says, there is some- 
thing


[29]
thing poisonous in strong purges, which 
evidently appears to be the case by their 
operation. In the next place, the taking of 
mercurials soon gives the patient a most 
dreadful obnoxious breath, of a peculiar 
offensiveness; for mercury has often so quick 
an effect on some constitutions, that a small 
quantity of it will have the power to imme- 
diately affect the mouth; the gums will 
grow sore and swell, the teeth loosen, so as 
not to be able to chew a crust of bread; a 
flux of saliva next comes on, and if the 
patient is so unlucky as to catch cold, dan- 
gerous symptoms ensue, and he is obliged 
to take to his bed. The mercury now at- 
tacks the head, and violent acute pains often 
seize the whole body, probably attended 
with a delirium. 
As a particular instance of the dreadful 
effects of strong mercurials, I refer the rea- 
der to the following case: Some years 
ago I was called to a lady of a delicate 
structure, who had been married about 
eighteen months, and that time lay in a 
very dangerous situation; her husband told 
me, that about half a year before his mar- 
riage, he had contracted the venereal infec- 
tion, though of a very mild nature; having 
never

[30]
never perceived any other symptoms than a 
running attended with a small heat of urine: 
he said, he made immediate application to 
a certain apothecary, who kept him under 
a physical discipline near five months; at 
the end of which time, having still a run- 
ning, he used an injection, but was assured 
the infection was perfectly carried off, which 
he imagined, by the running stopping soon 
after the use of the injection. At this time 
he was obliged to marry, at the particular 
desire of his friends; and about six weeks 
after, his wife began to complain of a severe 
smarting at the time of making water, and 
also discovered a few specks of matter on 
her linen; these symptoms daily increased; 
an universal consternation seized the unhappy 
couple; he declared that he was innocent, 
and free from any venereal symptoms; but 
in a few days, a small swelling arose in one 
of his groins, which shortly appeared a 
manifest bubo; the cause of his wife’s com- 
plaint was now easily to be accounted for, 
that he had never been cured, and had dis- 
ordered her. Upon this, he applied to a 
surgeon of his acquaintance, who effectually 
carried off his complaint in a short time. But 
to return to the lady, who found herself 
with child, she could not be persuaded to 
take

[31]
take any relief during the whole time of 
her pregnancy; however, being delivered, 
she consented to take medicines, as soon as 
the month of her lying-in was expired: in 
consequence of which, an apothecary was 
called in, (the surgeon who cured the hus- 
band, belonging to the army, was gone to 
join his regiment); the apothecary proceeded 
after the usual method, giving mercury hand 
over head, until his patient was brought to a 
state, he confessed, “required more assist- 
“ance than he was able to give:” her head, 
chaps, gums, tongue, eyes, &c. were swelled 
to a prodigious size, and the discharge of 
saliva extremely trifling. She knew no one, 
and raved incessantly. In this situation I 
found her, and really it somewhat perplexed 
me; however, as there was no time to be 
lost, I began to expel the mercury with as 
much expedition as her case would admit of, 
composing her at the same time with a gen- 
tle anodyne. In a couple of days I was 
so happy as to find the dangerous symptoms 
much abated, the swelling being a good 
deal decreased, and the delirium only at 
intervals; in about ten or twelve days all 
danger was partly over, only the patient re- 
duced extremely low; therefore, as soon as 
time would permit, I introduced my medi-
cine, 

[32] 
cines, which in about five weeks performed 
what is expected from a salivation, without 
being attended with any of the disagreeable 
and dangerous circumstances; so that my 
patient wanted nothing new to reinstate her 
to her former health, but a little proper nou- 
rishment. 
It evidently appears from the case of this 
lady, how cautious we should be in giving 
mercury to patients whose constitutions we 
are strangers to. In some people a few 
grains will have the most surprizing effect. I 
have known a person thrown into a spitting, 
merely by papering a quantity of mercurial 
plaister. 
In others I have known it used both in- 
ternally and externally, to a quantity almost
incredible, without shewing the least symp- 
toms of salivation. Therefore a medicine 
that is so uncertain in its operation, can be 
by no means safe, or to be depended on; 
moreover, the complaints it leaves after it, 
are often as distressing as the disorder for 
which it was administered; as I have men- 
tioned before, violent acute pains in the head 
or limbs, is frequently the result of taking 
mercury. 
An

[33]
An ancient writer says, in a dissertation on 
this disorder, among other cases were mer-
cury has been prejudicial, relates one in these 
words: “A man infected with the venereal 
“disease, was put under an internal course 
“of mercurials; but after the second or 
“third dose, one of his intestines burst, of 
“which he died.” 
By an injudicious use of it, whether out- 
wardly applied, or inwardly taken, the 
nerves are likewise affected, weakened, cor- 
rupted, and contracted; whence spasms, 
palsies, and too great an attenuation of the 
fluids, which often brings on a fatal saliva- 
tion, ulcers in the mouth and throat, and 
incurable looseness. 
Mercury judiciously administered, is how- 
ever, undoubtedly a most excellent medi- 
cine: it opens the pores, small vessels, and 
ducts of the glands; resolves obstructed hu- 
mours, attenuates those which are too thick 
and viscid, especially the lympha, and dissi- 
pates concretions even in the remotest parts 
of the body. On all these accounts, it is 
found of singular service in tumours, swelled 
glands, a schirrous spleen, messentery, or 
F liver,


[34]
liver, ganglious struma, and other such dis- 
eases. 
Many singular good properties mercury is 
possessed of; at the same time, if it is not 
used with the greatest accuracy and specula- 
tion, especially in venereal complaints, it 
should be dreaded as much as arsenic. And 
I cannot avoid saying, I have seen more safe 
and effectual cures performed without it, 
than ever I saw done with it; for my own 
part, I have utterly renounced the internal 
use of it in the venereal disease, (except in 
some particular cases) which resolution I 
never can deviate from, while I am so 
happy as to have discovered a method which 
is capable of eradicating every species of this 
disorder; not only with more ease and 
safety, but with greater certainty, than 
can ever be depended on from a mercurial 
course. 
In a slight case, I mean when there is 
only a running of matter from the urethra, 
attended with a heat of urine, the patient 
taking the Specific Drops, as already taken 
notice of, making use of a gentle cathartic 
about twice a week; the complaint will 
absolutely be carried off in a few days,
without


[35]
without any further inconvenience to the 
patient. As it acts as an absolute antidote, 
and operates principally as a diuretic, the 
urinary passages, which are the seats of the 
first stage of the disease, being constantly 
kept cleansed, is indisputably the most easy 
and effectual method of eradicating the ve- 
nereal virus, without distressing the patient 
with nauseous loads of pills, boluses, draughts, 
electuaries, &c. &c. &c. which are not only 
horridly disagreeable to the palate and sto- 
mach, but by their violent operation racks 
the constitution to an irretrievable state. If 
we but consider maturely the nature of the 
venereal virus, and how it effects the parts, 
by which it is received; we can no longer be 
at a loss to conclude how essential a medi- 
cine, composed of a diuretic and sudorific 
quality, is for carrying off the infection. 
Let us but remark the observations of the 
ingenious Monsieur Boteau, an eminent 
French surgeon, who wrote a very learned 
treatise on the venereal disease. In this de- 
scription of the venereal virus, he says as 
follows: “The venereal virus, examined 
“with a microscope, appears to be loaded 
“with small spicula, like little thorns; 
“this infectious matter, in the act of coi- 
“tion, is conveyed to either the man or
F2 woman: 

[36]
“woman: these spicula keep irritating the  
“tender parts, which is the cause of the 
“titillation that is felt soon after the in- 
“fection is caught, until a kind of blister 
“rises ; this inflames, swells, and at length 
“breaks and comes to a suppuration; the 
“discharge from which is the matter that 
“appears on the linen, when the patient is 
“what is vulgarly called clapped. It be- 
“comes an ulcer, eats and spreads, and 
“the discharge daily increases, which ex- 
“coriates as it passes; and this is the cause 
“of the running. The urine, which is
“composed of the saline, acrid particles of 
“the blood, passing over the ulcerated parts, 
“gives the patient intolerable pain; from 
“hence is the cause of what is improperly 
“called heat of urine.” 
This ingenious gentleman goes on with 
informing us how highly necessary it is to 
administer a proper diuretic on this occa- 
sion. 
What Monsieur Boteau says on this sub- 
ject, we must allow he argues with great 
judgment; for my own part, the experience 
I have acquired in treating this disease, 
convinces me of the certainty of it; as the
medicine

[37]
medicine I make use of, and now offer to 
the public, dilutes and attenuates the blood 
and other juices, disposing their more se- 
rous and humid parts, to go off in greater 
quantities through the urinary passages, and 
also to carry along with them the dregs 
and impurities of those fluids. This medi- 
cine is of a texture so loose and dissolu- 
ble, that it mixes most intimately with the 
blood, and so saturates the whole mass; 
that if any taint or contagion has infected 
the juices, or lies lurking in the small 
vessels; this remedy causes a dissolution of 
the virulency, washes it away from the 
habit, and is expelled by the urinary chan- 
nels. 
It is a composition composed of such 
ingredients, whole use requires no confine- 
ment or so innocent, that it may 
be taken with great advantage in fevers; 
and yet so effectual, that it thoroughly 
cures the clap, carrying off, in a little time, 
the chordee and sharpness of urine, its un- 
easy attendants, and indelible marks of the 
taint, which never disappear till the virus is 
subdued. 
Those

[38]
Those symptoms have constantly govern- 
ed my conduct in the cure of a clap; while 
they are present, the virus is in the urethra, 
and he who prescribes at this time balsamic, 
drying, or astringent things, in any form 
whatever, either does not understand the 
nature of the disease, or puts the patient to 
the hazard of a pox, that he may have the 
reputation of curing with speed. 
In fine, the Specific Drops answer ex- 
actly the directions of the great Boerhaave, 
viz. it is a medicine that will communicate 
itself to all the circulating juices of the 
body, freeing them from their viscidities, 
and carrying off their impurities by urine; 
without relaxing the parts, performing a 
perfect cure, free from the apprehensions of 
a pox or gleet, and requires no very parti- 
lar management, as to diet or exercise, nor 
no restraint of any kind, except from ex- 
cesses and coition. 
After a course of mercurial externally and 
internally used, the patient is still molested 
with ulcers, rhagades about the anus, tophs, 
nodes, ganglia and gummata; but especially 
pains resembling the rheumatic pains, either 
fixed or wandering, and owing their origin 
to

[39]
to the venereal infection, or the relicks of 
mercury not properly carried off. In this 
case I have known my medicine perform 
wonders; in some, these irksome complaints 
have been effectually removed; in others, by 
the use of it, life has been made somewhat 
more supportable. 
A remarkable cure performed by the Spe- 
cific Drops: some time ago, a trooper came 
to advise with me: his disorder was as fol- 
lows; about four years before he called on 
me, he told me he had contracted the ve- 
nereal disease, which he let run on him as 
long as he was able to do his duty; he 
then was salivated, and all the symptoms 
went off; in about a month after this, he 
perceived a slight pain just at the entrance 
of the anus, which gradually increased to a 
violent degree, and extended all along the 
genital parts. This complaint was so into- 
lerable, that he went through another sali- 
vation; as soon as the mercury began to 
operate, the pain was removed, but in a 
little time after the course was over, it re- 
turned with the usual violence: however, 
he submitted to four successive salivations,
yet


[40]
yet all to no purpose: he also told me he 
had used the bougies to no effect, they ra- 
ther increasing than diminishing the pain.
In this situation he applied to me, and I 
really must say, I had but little hopes of 
relieving him; but as he earnestly entreat- 
ed I would consider of some means to a- 
bate the severe agony he was in, especially 
in making water, I began with giving him 
the Specific Drops; the third dose gave 
him ease, and in about three weeks or 
a month, this complaint, that had baffled 
all the efforts of mercury, was utterly dis- 
sipated. It is above nine months since he 
left off taking the drops; he called on me 
the other day with a patient, and told me,
he had not the least symptoms of the dis- 
order since. 
Another case, where the singular effect
of the Specific Drops appear, viz. The 
steward of a nobleman having caught the 
venereal infection; by ill treatment it be- 
came a confirmed pox, for which he was
salivated; but an obstinate ulcer fixed it- 
self in the throat, which would not yield 
to fumigation, or any other methods that 
were tried with it; some time ago he came 
to me, I gave him my medicine, and used 
a trifling

[41]
a trifling gargle; in a month the ulcer en- 
tirely disappeared, and he has remained well 
ever since. 
Many thousand cases have proved the 
excellency of this medicine; nor is it con- 
fined to the venereal infection alone; for I 
have tried the efficacy of it in other dis- 
orders, and found it of infinite service in 
the following complaints: the fluor al- 
bus, or whites, a disease incident to women. 
Also the rheumatism, gout, scurvy, and 
king’s evil, in which it answered better than 
the chain of remedies generally made use 
of on these occasions. Moreover, I can 
aver, that this medicine never did any harm 
to a patient, which is more than can be said 
of many others. 
I must also observe, that this medicine 
may be taken by women in their preg- 
nancy; so that, in case they are disordered, 
the infection may be eradicated with ease 
and safety, without waiting until after deli- 
very; which is often the occasion of chil- 
dren dying miserable objects, and the con- 
stitution of the women severely wrecked. 
G It

[42]
It will probably be said, as it is a diu- 
retic, that it must absolutely be a dangerous 
medicine to administer to a woman in such 
a situation; but, as I have already menti- 
oned, that it is composed of such qualities, 
that it not only eradicates the distemper, by 
the most gentle evacuations, but, at the same 
time, so strengthens the parts, that all dan- 
ger of abortion, by this complaint, is effec- 
tually removed. 
Before I conclude this treatise, I will, for 
the perusal and relief of the afflicted, make 
some observations on a disorder which gene- 
rally follows a venereal complaint, where 
that destructive method, strong purging, or 
mercurials have been used; this is a gleet 
or weakness, occasioned also by that horrid 
and worst of habits, self-pollution; which 
often reduces the patient to so desponding a 
state as to render life almost an insupportable 
burthen. 
During the course of my practice, having 
been applied to by many miserable objects 
labouring under stubborn gleets and weak- 
nesses, and sometimes totally debilitated, oc- 
casioned by severe treatment in the venereal 
disease, frequent debauches, or self-abuse, 
induced

[43]
induced me to consider of some means to 
relieve them. I tried a number of com- 
positions, until, at length, experience disco- 
vered to me one possessed of every salutary 
quality, which is required for the effectual 
removing such complaints. 
But before I proceed to an account of 
this excellent medicine, it will first be ne- 
cessary to explain the nature and symptoms 
of a gleet; and also in what manner the pa- 
tient is affected, when the disorder arises 
from self-pollution. 
G2 Brief

[44]
Brief Observations on Gleets, Seminal Weak- 
nesses, the Cause of Impotency, and the 
miserable Complaints occasioned by that 
detestable Vice, Self-pollution, or too 
early and excessive Venery. Directing a 
Method of cure established on reiterated 
Experience. 
Nihil est malum, nisi quod turpe aut vitiosum est. Cic. 
Not any thing is bad, but what tends to corrupt or injure 
the mind. 
THE above quotation, I flatter myself 
will sufficiently authorize, or at least 
take off any imputation of indecency for my 
offering to public view an essay on the a- 
bove subject. As a specimen of my tender 
regard for the welfare of the public in 
general, I beg leave to point out the many 
delusive practices daily made use of by em- 
pirics; at the same time recommending a 
speedy, safe, and certain remedy, which 
many have experienced to their inexpressible 
satis-


[45] 
satisfaction; the result of which induced me 
to publish this work, on which, as soon as 
time will permit, the subject shall be more 
amply enlarged.—But to proceed. 
Of all the disorders that afflict the human 
body, not any, I affirm, has baffled tho 
faculty in physic, more than what I now 
am treating of. My natural inclination to 
study, joined with an extensive practice in 
the course of venereal complaints, has fur- 
nished me with a sufficient number of objects 
labouring under obstinate gleets, imbecilities, 
&c. arising from different causes; as to ren- 
der me not only a competent judge of those 
disorders, but enables me, at the same time, 
to form an easy, safe, and rational method 
of cure, I mean for those whose constitutions 
are not reduced beyond the power of art to 
retrieve. 
Experience (the established foundation of 
physic) is the only true path to guide the 
practitioner to a thorough knowledge of 
diseases, and the methods of cure. With 
submission to my brethren of the faculty, 
they must confess, that the curing gleets 
and seminal discharges, have given them 
more trouble than the most acute disor- 
ders;


[46]
ders; and numbers who have laboured 
under the same, by applying to empirics, 
have been loaded with nauseous medicines, 
without any effect but that of despondency, 
soon after succeeded by a total dissolution of 
the ematiated patient. 
With respect to gleets and feminal discharges, 
arising from various causes, it is necessary 
to take notice of the different symptoms in 
so distinct a manner, as to furnish my rea- 
ders with a proper idea of the several species 
of those disorders; that they may, with the 
greatest certainty, ascertain what part of the 
malignancy they labour under. 
Therefore first of the venereal gleet. 
A venereal gleet is an ostinate conti- 
nuance of a running, after all the symptoms 
of the infection are removed; the discharge 
from the urethra in men, and the vagina in 
women, that succeed a virulent gonorrhœa, 
is comprehended as a gleet, of which there 
are two species, their causes being far diffe- 
rent from one another; the one proceeds 
from the relaxation or erosion of the excre- 
tory ducts that open into the urethra; the
other 

[47] 
other from ulcers that remain in the pas- 
sage, after the virulency of the gonorrhœa 
has been carried off. 
These ulcers are stated indifferently in 
any part of the urethra, but wheresoever 
they are fixed, they furnish a discharge of 
some sort or other; if they are foul, the 
discharge will be thin yellow, and some- 
times greenish, and now and then tinged 
with blood, especially after a debauch. If 
these ulcers are clean, the discharge will 
be white, thick, and sometimes clammy, 
and the discharge more or less, according 
to their size and number; if they are few, 
or only one, and small, the discharge will 
be less considerable; in the last case, the 
excretory ducts of the seminal vessels and 
prostrate glands will be eroded, and the 
gleet will be partly seminal and partly 
matter. 
This species of a gleet which arises from 
ulcers, is not attended with the symptoms 
of debility, as if wholly seminal. 
There is another species of gleet that at- 
tends the female sex, called by them the 
Whites, it arises from a laxness of the 
glands


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glands of the womb, and a cold petui- 
tious blood, that instead of the menstrual
discharges, issues out a slimy yellowish 
matter, not much unlike the running of a 
gonorrhœa, and is so near a-kin, as hardly 
to be distinguished, and is sometimes at- 
tended with such a sharpness, as to make 
it dangerous for men to have any venereal 
intercourse with them at these times; this 
disorder is frequently the cause of bar- 
renness, and brings on many other dis- 
eases, which often terminates in a con- 
sumption. 
In the first species of the gleet, the dis- 
charge is always seminal, and is occasioned 
either by long continued, violent and re- 
peated gonorrhœas, the taking of strong 
purges, excessive or too early venery, or by 
that detestable practice, self-pollution. It 
generally appears when the patient is raised 
by venereal ideas, in making water, or in 
going to stool, and in this case the afflicted 
is frequently troubled with involuntary noc- 
turnal emissions. 
If there be a constant gleeting of the 
seminal humours, though ever so small, 
the

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the patient will be but seldom stimulated to 
venery. 
If the seminal discharge be not continual, 
but only returns at particular times, the cold 
and disinclination to venery, will be much 
less than in the former case; but whenever 
an erection happens, the semen will be dis- 
charged sooner than it ought; and the sti- 
mulus to venery being by that means taken 
off, the yard will become flacid, so as to 
hinder the act of coition. 
And if the seminal discharge be very 
great, whether by way of running, or from 
nocturnal emissions; in either case the bal- 
samic and spirituous part of the blood will 
be gradually exhausted, so as to render the 
parts of generation totally debilitated. 
The complaints that attend this species 
of gleets, are in some measure similar to 
those occasioned by that horrid, unmanly 
vice, self-pollution; a vice shocking as in- 
delicate to the ear: a vice productive of the 
most deplorable disorders, and of so abo- 
minable a nature, that I should willingly 
omit the least intimation thereof, to avoid 
injuring the delicacy of my reader, had not
H a

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a series of successful practice crowded me 
with an incredible number of unhappy 
people addicted to this enormous crime, 
which brought on the most dismal dis- 
eases; such as vertigos, or giddiness in the 
head, with dimness of sight, apoplexies, 
palsies, lethargies, lowness of spirits, a tabes 
dorsalis, or consumption in the back; in 
short, a concatenation of every thing preju- 
dicial to the human frame. 
By it the whole nervous system becomes 
impoverished, with an utter impotence for 
venereal enjoyments; the health and vigour 
being so precipitately exhausted, an imma- 
ture old age must inevitably ensue; the 
certain result of these execrable and inor- 
dinate passions, even in the very bloom of 
youth: and I assure the reader, with the 
greatest veracity, that this vice, too early or 
excessive venery, and the venereal disease, 
(with the assistance of mercury) increase the 
bills of mortality more than all the disor- 
ders incident to the human body: nor is 
it in the lead to be wondered at; for rea- 
son, (which ought to be our chief and only 
guide) dictates to us, that the semen is 
the very essence of strength, and renders 
us active, sprightly, and fit for the diffe- 
rent

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rent occupations in life; but when drained 
of that prolific juice, our constitutions are
rendered old, we become languid and pale, 
the limbs weak and incapacitated to perform 
their several functions. For instance, if the 
afflicted walks but a little way, he is soon 
wearied, and affected with pains in the 
head, neck, and shoulders; the small of the 
back, hips and thighs, testicles, &c. a cold- 
ness to the act of coition, and frequently a 
total inability is the consequence. That great 
author Celsus, very justly observes, “We 
“should carefully avoid making too free, 
“or lavishly parting with, what would be 
“our principal relief in sickness.”—There- 
fore when we are attacked with acute dis- 
orders, we must inevitably submit to their 
force, for want of the essential supply to invi- 
gorate the animal spirits. 
I could quote many eminent authors, who 
all coincide with what I here mention; but 
as divers quotations might rather puzzle and 
perplex the reader, than elucidate the dis- 
course; I have, for the more easy conception 
of every capacity, steered clear of crowding 
this treatise with superfluous matter, which 
many productions abound with; a sure token 
of a real want of judgment or knowledge in 
H2 physic;


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physic; as a subterfuge for which, they 
have recourse to any author to supply their 
defects. 
I shall now add some singular instances, 
which have occurred in my practice: and 
first, with respect to the subject last men-
tioned. 
A gentleman between twenty and thirty 
years of age, who was, from his infancy, 
naturally endowed with a robust constitu- 
tion, till he arrived at an age, when 
nature began to ripen; (which should, 
at that crisis, particularly be preserved to 
perfect manhood) tho’ by him was most 
shamefully abused by this too frequent vice, 
being pointed out to him by a schoolfellow, 
and which he repeated for many years, till 
his constitution became totally emaciated; his 
person a mere shadow of existence, and given 
up by several of the faculty as incurable; 
but having heard of my restorative remedy, 
and its many extraordinary cures, induced 
him to apply to me: upon my examining 
thoroughly the effect of his complaints, I 
must confess I was very dubious of the power 
of medicine to relieve him; however, by the 
divine assistance, and the operation of my 
resto-

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restorative medicine, he obtained, I may say, 
a miraculous cure. 
I shall now observe an instance, as well of 
the bad effects of a too early, or excess of 
venereal enjoyments: a young man, who 
had been greatly afflicted thereby, became 
so reduced and defective, as not to be able 
to enjoy the embraces of the fair sex for a 
considerable time, having brought on him- 
self a disorder, I mean that of impotency, 
of which there are three species. The first, 
in which case there is frequently a strong 
erection, tho’ no emission; and if any, a 
thin watery fluid, and even then in a small 
quantity; this arises from a more close union 
than before of the excretory ducts of the 
seminal vessels and prostrate glands, the na- 
tural consequence of astringent injections, 
&c. &c. 
The second species of this disorder is, 
when the semen is discharged without any 
sensation of pleasure; the erection being not 
natural, occasioned by a too great extension 
or relaxation of the excretory ducts before- 
mentioned, derived from a gonorrhœa by ill
treat- 

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treatment, the neglect of a patient, excessive
venery, or self-pollution. 
The last species of this disorder is, when 
the penis is weak and languid, utterly in- 
capable of erection; this frequently happens 
from two causes; first, when the seminal 
vessels or prostrate glands are become cal- 
lous, or filled with fungous flesh; by which 
means they are but little, if in the least de- 
gree, stimulated by the semen that is col- 
lected in them. The second cause consists 
in a paralytic relaxation of the genital mus- 
cles, by whose assistance the penis acquires 
its rigidity and tension. But to return to 
the patient: I found, on examination, that 
he principally laboured under the complaints 
that attend the second species of impotency: 
he told me, that unfortunately having an 
engagement on his hands, that frequently 
obliged him to venereal excesses, and having 
formerly abused himself by self-pollution, 
which gradually declined his vigour, till at 
length he became almost debilitated. In 
this situation he purchased an empirical 
composition: a composition set off with all 
the art of rhetoric to enforce on the pub- 
lic its efficacy; which, to his sorrow, to- 
tally debilitated him; for having taken a 
dose,

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dose, going to bed according to the direc- 
tions given him; in about an hour after, 
he was seized with the most excruciating 
pain in the genital parts, attended with a 
violent priapism. Though great the pain, 
he bore it with uncommon patience, for by 
the strength of the erection, he flattered 
himself he could perform wonders; which 
prompted him to attempt, by an immen- 
sity of furious efforts; by that means he 
almost killed himself, as well as his female 
partner; he was immediately attacked with 
a stranguary, followed by a delirium, so 
that his life was despaired of. A physician 
was sent for, who in some measure relieved 
him, and he voided from the urethra a quan- 
tity of blood and spungy flesh, accompa- 
ned with fainting fits. For three weeks 
he was confined to his chamber, the ani- 
mal spirits being quite exhausted by a fre- 
quent discharge of bloody urine, &c. As 
soon as these complaints began to alleviate, 
they were followed by others of equally 
as distressing a nature, such as diurnal and 
nocturnal emissions of the semen to an in- 
credible degree; the penis became quite 
flacid, and a vehement pain and tension in 
the testicles; his sight greatly impaired, in- 
so much that he could neither read nor 
write,

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write, but tears issued from his eyes, at- 
tended with a pain over the eye brows, as if 
compressed by a weight, and an infinite 
number of other baneful afflictions. 
I gave him my restorative medicine, 
with the necessary rules for a nourishing 
regimen, which had the happy effects in 
about six weeks to remove the symptoms;
the emissions were considerably decreased, 
and, in some measure, he resumed his for- 
mer vigour, though he has ever since sus- 
tained a great loss of memory. I cannot 
forbear taking notice of the shocking effects 
of stimulating medicines, the preparation 
of cantharides, administered by quacks to 
excite lust, which they effect by irritating 
the tender parts of generation, and occasion 
a stimulation; but, at the same time, destroys 
the essential qualification, by leaving the parts 
utterly incapacitated. 
Dr. Quincy says, that in Meckeren’s 
observation (among other strange instances 
of their effects this way) mentions a man 
who by taking a dose of cantharides, so 
inflamed him, that though he had almost 
killed his wife, who declared to the phy- 
sicians who were sent for next day, that 
his

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he that night septies hortum fodivit; yet 
he continued even in distraction with fresh 
rage, until he died delirious. Such must
have been the fate of the person whose 
case I before observed, had it not been pre- 
vented by proper assistance. With respect 
to the various compositions, offered to the 
public, pretending to cure gleets, seminal 
weakness, impotency, &c. &c. I have made 
a thorough analysis of, and always found 
them to consist chiefly of cantharides, which 
I think none but madmen would attempt 
venturing on; for although they excite a 
lustful desire, by stimulating and forcing the 
vessels, they pervert all natural vigour, and 
frequently leave the parts in an irretrievable 
state. 
As another instance of their dangerous 
effects; a few years ago I was called to a 
lady who had been married a consider- 
able time, without having a child, and being 
very desirous to become a mother, and 
imagining herself defective, was induced to 
purchase an advertised medicine, which is 
recommended to the far sex to cause im- 
mediate conception. She accordingly took 
a dose, and in less than an hour was seized 
with a violent uterine fever. In this situa- 
I tion


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tion I found her; and she being of a very 
delicate constitution, and from what I ap- 
prehended she had taken, convulsions and 
a delirium would next follow, and that 
nothing but death could relieve her. How- 
ever, though dangerous the circumstances 
appeared, by my administering the proper 
antidotes, I was happily deceived in my 
conjectures; for by an afflux of blood from 
the uterus or womb, the malignant symptoms 
began to abate, but reduced her so low, as 
to terminate in a nervous disorder, and it was 
upwards of six months before the power of 
medicine and the country air could reinstate 
her in her former health. 
It evidently appears from the case of the 
gentleman, as well as that of the lady, 
how cautious we should be in taking ad- 
vertised medicines, especially without first 
knowing the abilities of the author; and 
I cannot avoid saying, it is very remiss in 
our excellent police, not to inspect more 
closely the published medicines, and their 
proprietors, as it is notoriously known, that 
this metropolis abounds with illiterate pre- 
tenders to physic. Some of these gentry 
conceal their names and places of abode;
under a pretence of being censured for 
quack-


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quackisism, and appoint their pernicious 
compositions to be sold at booksellers, toy- 
shops, &c. though the real truth is, being 
conscious of their own ignorance, do it to 
shun an examination, even from their very 
patients; and for mere lucrative views, stab 
their fellow-creatures in the dark. 
I flatter myself, I have now given suffi- 
cient reasons, as well as some instances 
to deter our unthinking youth, and others, 
from exhausting their natural strength too 
precipitately, and bringing themselves to 
premature death, which must inevitably 
be the consequence, by the disorders that 
never fail to ensue from bring too much 
addicted to venery, more especially from 
that horrid crime, self-pollution, which 
must terminate in not only cutting off the 
thread of life, but, in the interim, attend- 
ed with a series of such direful effects, as 
to render them the most miserable objects 
breathing, sinking under the complicated 
wretchedness of desperate diseases, without 
the least gleam of hope in this life, and in a 
manner incapable of preparing themselves for 
a future state; for a debility in the constitu- 
tion impairs the intellects, the very basis of 
human understanding. 
I2 I have

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I have here, without the least exagge- 
ration, pointed out the delusive pleasures 
made use of by many, setting forth the 
malignant effects thereof; and, I hope, and 
doubt not, but those who read this trea- 
tise, especially who have addicted them- 
selves to this horrid custom, will know 
from experience, that what I have asserted 
is not the result of whim or caprice, but 
authenticated by the many dismal specta- 
cles, which too frequently present them- 
selves, acknowledging their guilt of such 
unmanly and pernicious practices; observing, 
Parcere noninibus, et dicere de vitiis. Care- 
fully concealing names and persons, though 
treating of their vices, can give no offence, 
but may be a means, I hope, to stop this 
abominable practice, as every one, with the 
least reflection, must shudder at the bare 
apprehension of the dangerous consequences 
resulting therefrom. I have endeavoured 
to render this discourse both useful and 
plain to the meanest capacity, at the same 
time avoiding to injure the delicate ear as 
much as the nature of the subject can ad- 
mit of; and shall be happy in this publica- 
tion, should it be a means of answering the 
desired effect.
As 

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As a caution to those whose inclinations 
lead them to venereal intercourses, they 
should first consider their constitutions; for 
let the reader well observe, that one of a 
robust habit of body, may, with less dan- 
ger, indulge himself in those enjoyments 
to a degree that would be highly preju- 
dicial, and amazingly impair a person of 
a more delicate constitution; and though 
moderation in each respect, ought atten- 
tively to be adhered to, yet it is more in- 
cumbent on such, as nature has formed of 
a tender structure, to avoid those excesses, 
which their animal system is unable to en- 
counter. 
Persons likewise just recovered from sick- 
ness, should by no means venture on ve- 
nery; for as coition strains the fibres, relaxes 
the nerves, and affects every branch of the 
human frame, it may by the weakness of 
the several functions bring on some of those 
disorders already taken notice of. 
He, therefore, who would frequently en- 
gage in venereal embraces, ought to be of 
age, adult, and of an hale constitution; to 
avoid, by all means, any intemperance that 
might impair it, such as excessive drink- 
ing,

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ing, a too laborious, or sedentary life, bleed- 
ing, purging, or any thing that would in 
the least diminish strength; to take sus- 
tenance of a nourishing, light quality, using 
gentle, salutary exercise; and, in short, to 
keep the animal œconomy as it were in its 
equilibrium: observing those rules, we may 
venture on venery to a degree of moderation, 
which if we find is not succeeded by weak- 
ness or pain, we may then rest assured is not 
injurious; for as a certain writer elegantly 
expresses himself: 
“The youth who bathes in pleasure’s lim- 
“pid stream 
“At well-judg’d intervals, feels all his soul 
“Nerv’d with recruited strength; but if too 
“oft 
“He swims in sportive mazes through the 
“flood, 
“It chills his languid virtue. 
To conclude. The Divine Disposer of 
all things has implanted in us passions for 
the best of purposes, and at the same time 
endowed us with a sufficient share of reason 
(if we give ourselves time to reflect) to 
curb any impetuosity that might urge us 
to abuse his great gifts. For it is be-
yond

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yond a doubt, that if those passions are 
governed according to the Omnipotent De- 
cree, it will encourage us only to use them 
for good and wise ends; but by giving 
way to vicious depraved excesses, we lose 
the command of our intellects, by plunging 
ourselves into labyrinths, derogatory to the 
intent of our existence, and pervert the 
designs of our beneficent Creator; we must
then render ourselves and off-spring (if by 
chance any) unequal and despicable to those, 
whose prudence and happy disposition of 
mind have led them no further than the li- 
mits of reason, and the pleasures of enjoying 
a just conscience. 
I shall now beg leave to introduce a cer- 
tain and effectual remedy for those disorders 
that are the consequence of excessive venery, 
or that unnatural filthy practice, self-pollution. 
I recommend to the afflicted a medicine of 
the most singular nature, which I would by 
no means presume to do in this public man- 
ner, had not a multiplicity of instances in 
private practice proved its efficacy beyond 
my most sanguine expectation. 
Animated by its success, and every day 
furnishing me with fresh assurances, what 
a wel-

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a welcome reception it would meet with; 
it having been tried and approved of by 
many eminent professors of the faculty, and 
the continual approbations I receive both 
personally and by letter; I undoubtedly 
would be an enemy to myself and the 
public, if I did not disclose its surprizing 
effects. 
It is nature’s restorative; a preparation 
of a most elaborate process, founded on such 
sure basis, that its virtues are sufficient to 
defend it from the calumny of those who 
envy what is beyond the power of their 
shallow capacity to comprehend. This 
medicine is probably the greatest cordial to 
nature, the whole materia medica can pro- 
duce, and will even at the last ebb of life, 
afford amazing assistance to the languid spi- 
rits. It is an admirable remedy for all 
weaknesses or relaxations of the body, whe- 
ther natural or acquired; for it not only for- 
tifies the feeble parts, especially the stomach 
after excesses, but reinstates health and vigour 
to a decayed constitution; if in the power of 
medicine. 
Those who by venereal engagements, 
repeated salivations, or the frequent use of 
mercurial medicines, have emaciated their 
con-

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constitutions, perhaps, to all appearance be-
yond recovery; also if by severe illnesses the 
animal juices are become totally impove- 
rished, that the patient is reduced to a con- 
sumptive state; in all such cases it will to 
admiration nourish, comfort, and revive the 
whole vital system, and in every degree 
invigorate the animal functions. Persons 
who have not the happiness to be so ready 
in their venereal intercourses as they would 
desire, and probably from a suspicion of 
an insufficiency of either party, this great 
cordial medicine will certainly render their 
embraces fruitful. It is by these une- 
qualled virtues, that it effectually removes 
the causes of impotency in one sex, and 
barrenness in the other, with all imagin- 
able expedition; it stops obstinate gleets, 
though probably of a very long standing, 
and after astringent injections and internal 
remedies have had no effect. In the fluor 
albus, or whites, a disorder incident to the 
fair sex, which is too frequently the cause 
of barrenness, and a tribe of other me- 
lancholy complaints, it is a most excellent 
remedy. 
Much more might be said in behalf of 
the sovereign power and utility of this re- 
K storative

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storative medicine; but lest it should be 
deemed exaggeration, I shall only say, a 
trial of it will remove every scruple of dissi- 
dence, by restoring health to my patients, 
and doing honour to my practice. 
As a proof of my assertion, I refer my 
readers to the following letters, the original 
of which I have filed with many others. 
To Doctor SMYTH. 
SIR, 
THE benefit I have received from your 
restorative medicine, prompts me to 
return you those my sincere thanks for the 
assistance you have thus given me. My 
complaint was a total imbecility of the 
parts of generation (though a young man) 
which after taking two bottles of the above 
restorative, I thank God and you, I have 
entirely regained my former vigour. I give 
you my free consent (for the benefit of the 
afflicted) to make this public. 
And am, Sir, 
Your most humble Servant, 
E. ADDEN. 
BATH. 
The

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The CASE of Captain WEST. 
SIR, 
HEARING of the reputation of your 
Restorative Medicine, induced me to 
make trial of it. My case was a relaxation 
of the generative faculties, occasioned, I 
must confess, by the follies of youthful 
excesses, and a residence for some time, 
in a hot climate. However, I have taken 
your Restorative regularly, and have the 
pleasure to assure you I have entirely regain- 
ed my former vigour, and now enjoy a bet- 
ter state of health, than I have done for 
some years past.—If you think proper, you 
may publish this, 
And am, Sir, 
Your most humble Servant, 
Oliver James West. 
Scarborough. 
K2 The

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The CASE of Mr. W. NICHOLSON. 
SIR, 
I Think it my Duty to inform you, that 
after taking nine bottles of your Resto-
rative Drops, I am perfectly recovered from 
a debilitated state, the cause of which I 
unfortunately brought on myself, by a prac- 
tice I am ashamed to mention. 
I am, Sir, 
Your most humble servant, 
W. NICHOLSON. 
Twickenham, 
Aug. 16, 1771. 
The CASE of H. Fletcher, Esq; 
SIR, 
I Should think myself wanting in gratitude, 
if I omitted acquainting you, that I am 
perfectly recovered from a relaxed emaciated 
state, by taking your restorative medicine: 
my complaints were occasioned, I am well 
convinced, by the effects of different cli- 
mates, and partly my own imprudence, the 
particulars of which, delicacy will not per- 
mit me to mention; however, as you know 
the particulars of my case, I give you my 
consent (as it may be the means of reliev- 
ing many, who labour under similar com- 
plaints) to communicate it to the public. 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
HEN. FLETCHER. 
Bath, Jan. 3, 1773. 


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An extraordinary Cure performed by Dr. 
Smith’s Specific Drops, universally ac- 
knowledged the only absolute Remedy for 
venereal and scorbutick Complaints, with- 
out Mercury. 
SIR, 
THE great benefit I and my wife have 
happily experienced from your Specific 
Drops,prompt us, to return our most sincere 
thanks and grateful acknowledgments to 
you. Our case was as follows: Having a 
call to London some time since, I impru- 
dently entered into a scene of dissipation, 
which on my return to the country, the 
venereal disease displayed itself in my wife, 
(to whom I had innocently communicated 
it) it having been in my blood a long time 
before it made its appearance on me. In 
this deplorable state, we applied to an emi- 
nent surgeon of this town, whose utmost 
efforts was of no effect: at length, happily 
hearing of your Specific Drops, we made 
trial of them, and found the desired relief. 
Filled with gratitnde at our surprizing re- 
covery, we give our consent (for the benefit 
of the public) to make this known. I am, 
Sir, your most humble servant. 
G. JAMES, 
Upholsterer. 
Nov. 20, 1772. 
Some



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Some hundreds of cases I could here 
exemplify, and point out their different 
diseases, and from whence their complaints 
arose, but least it might offend those who 
have honoured me with their confidence.
I would not attempt offering to public 
view a matter of such a delicate nature, 
without the immediate approbation of the 
individual. 
I must now come to a conclusion, and hope 
this work will meet with as favourable a re- 
ception as the remedies offered in it have 
done. So plain a description is given of the 
venereal infection, gleets, &c. that the afflict- 
ed, by comparing their case with the diffe- 
rent symptoms, may easily know the situa- 
tion of their disorder, and their real cause of 
their complaint. There is one thing to be 
observed in this treatise, that the reason the 
venereal symptoms in women are not distinct- 
ly described, is, that it would only be a re- 
petition of the same thing over again, as that 
disease affects both sexes much in the same 
manner. 
Before I close this discourse, I must beg 
leave, in vindication of myself, to add the 
following remark: that every proficient in 
any art, science, or profession, will ever meet 
with enemies, by persons of low and base 
minds, who, envious of others superior talents,
vainly 

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vainly endeavour by censuring others, to im-
pose on the understanding of mankind. Vain- 
ly, I say, because their shallow capacities can- 
not comprehend how easy their fallacy is seen 
through. Attacks of this nature, no doubt, 
are made at me by these splenetic gentry, 
which I attribute to the great success I daily 
meet with from my salutary methods: being 
confident, it is beyond the reach of such, to 
injure or prejudice me in my well-known 
established reputation in physic. But why 
should I expect to go uncensured, since it 
has been the fate of the greatest men that 
ever appeared in the physical province? How- 
ever, to all calumniators my reply is, and 
ever shall be, I laugh at their folly, and, with 
the world, despise their meanness. 
†*† Those who chuse to communicate 
their cases by letter, are desired to be as ex- 
plicit and clear as possible, and they shall be 
as agreeably answered. 
*** The Doctor’s New Treatise on the 
Venereal Disease, &c. price 1s. 6d. The Re- 
storative for Weaknesses, &c. price 1l. 1s. 
and 10s. 6d. a bottle, with full directions. 
The Specific Drops for venereal complaints, 
in bottles, at 5s. and 2s. 6d. with printed 
directions, are to be had at the following 
places: Mr. Pridden’s, bookseller, No. 100, 
Fleet-street; Mr. Cavell’s, bookseller, the 
corner

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corner of Middle-row, Holborn; Mr. Blyth's, 
bookseller. No. 87, Cornhill, near the Royal- 
Exchange; Mr. Turpin’s, bookseller, at the 
Golden-Key, opposite Hicks’s Hall, St. John’s 
Street, West-Smithfield; and at the Doctor’s 
house in George street, York-Buildings, in 
the Strand, London. 
To be had also in the following towns, 
viz. 
Mr. Goadby, Printer, at Sherborne, Dor- 
setshire; Mr. Pine, Printer, at Bristol; Mr. 
Trewman, Printer, at Exeter; Mr. Raikes, 
Printer, at Gloucester; Messrs. Fletcher and 
Co. Printers, Cambridge; Mr. Carnan, Prin- 
ter, at Reading, Berkshire; Mr. Sealy, Prin- 
ter, at Salisbury; Mr. Chase, Printer, at Nor- 
wich; Mr. Slack, Printer, at Newcastle; Mr. 
Aris, Printer, at Birmingham; Messrs. Sim- 
mons and Kirby, Canterbury; Mr. Pugh, 
Printer, at Hereford; Mr. Clachar, Printer, 
at Chelmsford; Mr. Griffith Wright, Prin- 
ter, New St. End, Leeds, Yorkshire; Mr. 
Monk, Printer of Adams’s Courant, Chester; 
Mr. Drewry, at Derby; Mr. Gregory, at 
Leicester; and in all the principal towns in 
England. 
FINIS.