FOOTNOTES

℞.Condit. rosar. rubr. unc.iii.Condit. anthos. Cort. Peruv. ana unc.i.Mastic. dr.ii.Cath. dr.i.Olei cinnam. gutt.iii.Sirup. Cort. aur. q.s.f. electuar. solid.

Of this he took a quarter of an ounce twice a day. In three weeks time he found himself recovered in all respects; and the running, or gleet, no longer incommoded him, unless after the nocturnal pollutions, which were become less frequent; a continuation of the same remedies for fifteen days more completely restored him.

Two married persons, foreigners, whom I never knew, were attacked almost at the same time, with a running, accompanied with weakness, and with pains along the spine of the back. They were very sure there was no venereal taint in the case, and could impute their disorder to nothing but conjugal excesses. The running was much the most considerable in the husband. They had tried various remedies, and all without any effect, and among others some mercurial pills, which had increased the running. At length they had me consulted. I prescribed for them the cold-bath, wine medicated with the bark, steel, and flowers of red roses. They took regularly my prescription: it was the summer of 1758, when the rains rendered the use of bathing in the river very difficult: the wife bathed only once or twice,the husband a dozen of times. At five weeks end, they sent me word that they were almost totally restored: I advised them to continue the method till the cure should be completed, which it soon was.

These happy successes cannot, however, serve for a general foundation of a favorable prognostic: this disorder is often extremely rebellious, and even sometimes incurable. Of this I will give but one example, but it is a demonstrative one.

One of the greatest Practitioners that we have now in Europe, and who has enriched the medical art with works, all of them excellent, is actually himself afflicted with asimple gonorrhœa, of fifteen years standing, which not all his skill, nor that of some other Physicians, whom he has consulted, have been able to dissipate. This sad and vexatious disorder wastes him away, little by little, and gives room to fear the loss of him long before the term to which it were to be wished he should arrive, and to which he might attain in the ordinary course of nature.

It would be needless for me to launch into a farther extension: I have aimed at omitting nothing that might open the eyes of youth on the horrors of the precipice they are preparing for themselves. I have done my best to point out the most proper means of remedying the evils they will have brought on themselves: I conclude with a repetition of whatI have already said in the course of this work, that some happy cures ought not to serve for an encouragement of fallacious hopes; those who are even the most happily cured, find it a hard matter to recover their pristine vigor, nor can preserve a transitory health but by dint of a constant attention to regularity, and to the keeping measures with their constitution; the number of those who never emerge out of a state of languor, is tenfold to that of those who are cured; and some examples of persons, who either had not been more than slightly affected, or in whom a more than ordinary vigorous constitution might occasion the easier recovery, ought not to be considered as constituting a general rule,

——Non bene ripæCreditur: ipse aries etiam nunc vellera siccat.

——Non bene ripæ

Creditur: ipse aries etiam nunc vellera siccat.

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FOOTNOTES[1]Montesquieu,Persian Lett.49.[2]The title of the Original French isOnanisme, which is changed in this translation, to avoid the mistake of the one work for the other.[3]BoerhaavePrælectiones ad Inst.§. 658. 1. 5. p. 444. Edit. Goett.[4]De Morbis, Lib. ii. cap. 49. Foes. 479.[5]De glandulis.Foes. p. 273.[6]De re medica, Lib. i. cap. 9 & 11.[7]De signis et causis dict. morb.Lib. ii. cap. 5.[8]L. i. c. 7. p. 34. Edit.Boerhaave.[9]Comm. tert. in Lib. iii. Hipp.De morb. vulg.Oper. Omn. tom. iii. p. 583.[10]Historia mundi, Lib. vii. cap. 53. p. 124.[11]Tetrab.Serm. iii. cap. 34.[12]Medic. Static.Sect. 6. Aphor. 15. 19. 21. 23 & 24.[13]Commentar. de sanitate tuenda, p. m. 37.[14]Obs. Medic.L. iii. c. 24.[15]Zipæus,Fundam. Med.Part. ii. Art. 6.[16]Instit. Medic.Part. ii. cap. 28.[17]Praxis Chirurgic.Decur. i. Obs. 4.[18]Decur. ii. Ann. 5. Append. Obs. 88. p. 56.[19]SchelammerArs medendi univers.Lib. ii. Sect. ii. Cap. iv. §. 23.[20]Consult. Cent.2 & 3. Cas. 102. T. iii. p. 293.[21]Same place, Cas. 103.[22]Same place.[23]De morbis ex nimia venere, § 18. Oper. Omn. Suppl. sec. Pars prim. p. 496.[24]Institut.§ 77. Translated into French by M. D. L. M.[25]Comment.on the foregoing quotation, T. vii. p. 214.[26]Institut. physiol.§ 870. 872.[27]De insensib. perspir.cap. ult.[28]Aphor.586. T. ii. p. 46.[29]De morb. anim. ab infirm. medull. cer.p. 37.[30]Opera Omnia, fol. T. iii. p. 295.[31]Lewis’sTab. Dorf.p. 12.[32]Lewis’sTab. Dors.p. 16.[33]Immoderata seminis profusio, non solum utilissimi humoris jactura, sed ipso etiam motu convulsivo, quo emittitur, frequentius repetito, imprimis lædit. Etenim summam voluptatem universalis excipit virium resolutio, quæ crebro ferri nequit, quin enervet. Colatoria autem corporis quo magis emulgentur, eo plus humorum aliunde ad se trahunt, succisque sic ad genitalia derivatis reliquæ partes depauperantur. Inde ex nimia venere, lassitudo, debilitas, immobilitas, incessus delumbis, encephali dolores, convulsiones sensuum omnium, maxime visus, hebetatio, cæcitas, fatuitas, circulatio febrilis, exsiccatio, macies, tabes & pulmonica & dorsalis, effeminatio. Augentur hæc mala, atque insanabilia fiunt, ob perpetuum in venerem pruritum, quem mens non minus quam corpus tandem contrahit, quoque efficitur ut & dormientes obscæna phantasmata exerceant, & in tentiginem pronæ partes quavis occasione impetum concipiant, onerique & stimulo sit quamlibet exigua reparati spermatis copia, levissimo conatu, & vel sine hoc, de relaxatis loculis relapsura. Quo circa liquet quare adolescentiæ florem adeo pessundet iste excessus.Institutiones PathologiæMedicin. Auctore H.D.Gaubio, Leyden, 1758.[34]Consult. Med.T. ii. p. 16.[35]Dated the 15th September, 1755.[36]Decur. ii. ann. 4. Obs. 166. p. 327.[37]Schenckius, L. i. Obs. 2. 36.[38]§. 1077. T. iii. p. 429.[39]Quæst. med.An Epilepsiæ Merc. util.[40]De locis affectis, L. v. c. 6.[41]Observationes medicæ(oppido raræ,) Obs. 18.[42]§. 1075. T. iii. p. 412.[43]De morb. nerv., p. 462.[44]Nosologia methodica, seu classes morborum, t. 5.[45]Ad. §. 658. n. f. c. 5. p. 446.[46]Epidem.L. iii. sect. 3. æg. 16.Foes.p. 1117.[47]De morb. ex nim. ven.§ 20, 21.[48]Nic. ChesneauObserv. medic.lib. v. Obs. 36, 37.[49]Nosol.T. ii, p. 262.[50]De sanitate tuenda, p. 110.[51]Aphor.sect. 6. 46.[52]De ætate conjugio opportuna, Sect. 10. Suppl. 2do. p. 340. The whole Dissertation deserves perusal, though it might have been better written.[53]Juven.Sat. vi. ver. 321.[54]De genitura, Foes. p. 231.[55]De spermate, L. i. C. i. T. viii. p. 135.[56]De semine, L. i. C. xxv. T. i. p. 1281.[57]Cas. 102. p. 193.[58]De perspiratione insensibili, Cap. xvii. § 5. pag. 219. In 1720, the Dr.D. A. Jacquesmaintained, at Paris, a thesis on this question, “An humorum præstantior semen?” and, according to custom, defended the affirmative.[59]I adopt, or appear to adopt here, the common system of the absorbent power of the ordinary veins. In Mr.Hunter’ssystem, who will have it that the absorption is only made by the lymphatic vein, the parts of generation are equally proper for a very considerable absorption, since they abound in vessels of that kind.[60]De semine, L. i. C. xxxiv. T. i. p. 1279.[61]Hall.Prim. lin. phys.§. 790. Besides which there may be consulted upon this head,WhartonDe glandulis;RusselDe œconomia natur. in glandul. morb.p. 92.SchmeiderDe regressuseminis ad massam sanguineam.Supplement aux actes des Sçavans de Lipsie, T. v. p. 552. and a croud of other physiological authors.[62]Such as are curious to see an excellent work upon these imperfect men, will find their account in perusing a treatise ofWithofDe castratis.[63]Fel. PlateriObs.lib. i.Suffocatio ex congressu, p. 174.[64]Epidem.L. iii. æg. 17.Foes.p. 1117.[65]Encycl. med.L. ii. c. 6. p. 347.[66]Neuropathia, L. i. ver. 375.[67]Sect. 6. Aph. 10.[68]De motu animali, L. ii. cap. xii. Prop. 170.[69]Traité du Cœur, L. iv. cap. xii. §. 3. p. 539.[70]Aphor. 4. p. 6.[71]De morbis a nim. ven.sect. 17.[72]Abstract fromLynch’sGuide to health, p. 306.[73]Q. Serenus Samn.[74]In tentigine ardentissima juvenum inest quid grati in ore ventriculi; in concubitum si ruunt salacissimi, et ultra vires tendant opus, tunc in ore ventriculi manet illud ingratissimum, amarumque quod exprimere nequeunt: pœnas et luunt, et pœnitentia dolent: hinc macies, marasmus, &c.G. R. de PayvaDe affectu atrabiliario, mirachiali, etc.p. 17.[75]De morbis chronicis, L. ii. c. 6. “Stomachus delectationis tristitiæque princeps est.”[76]De morb. nerv.p. 454.[77]Ibid. p. 807.[78]De perspiratione, Cap. xvii. § 8-12. andAph.[79]The works of the lateClifton Wintringham, T. ii. p. 85, &c.[80]Comment. in lib. de Diæta, p. 228.[81]Regnier, Sat. v. The sense of which is nearly as follows:Not by intrinsic merit things are tried,But humor, character, their worth decide;Man judging as he’s, at the time, inclin’d,So versatile, so weak’s the human mind.[82]LucretiusDe natura rerum.[83]De Aere, Locis, et Aquis.Foes.p. 293.[84]Sect. 6. Aphor. 35.[85]De natura pueri, Text. 22.Foes.p. 242.[86]Translated from the French. There may also be seen an excellent passage on the force and dangers of voluptuous habits, in a new Treatise of M.Pujatti, Professor at Padua, long of great reputation for his admirable workDe victu febricitantium, p. 63.[87]SeeGaubiiInstitutiones pathologicæ, §. 529.[88]P. 126.[89]Excerptum totius Italicæ et Helveticæ Literaturæ, pro anno 1759.T. i. p. 93.[90]OnExperience.In German, by M.Zimmerman, vol. ii. p. 400. I take this fragment from those which his friendship has engaged him to translate in my favor. Almost all the other will serve to adorn a work of which I am preparing the publication, which will soon follow this.[91]The demonstration of this truth may be seen in the part I am quoting of M.Senac’s treatiseOn the Heart, L. iii. §. 7., a work that seemed to have left nothing more to be wished for upon that subject, if its illustrious author had not, in his promise of a second edition, given us to understand, that he could yet render it more perfect. A great man may surpass himself, and see a point of perfection, which others do not so much as imagine.[92]Lessons on his Institutes, Sect. 776.[93]De ratione victus in morbis acutis.Foes.p. 405, 406.[94]De morb. a nimia venere, §. 24, & 26.[95]Instit. de med.T. vii. p. 215.[96]This symptom is very frequent among persons who have exhausted themselves by venery, and contributes to prolong or maintain that exhaustion. The smallest temptation produces a beginning of erection, which is followed by an efflux of the seed.[97]The one selected here is the seventh. This thesis, so worthy of perusal, is to be found, together with a great number of other small excellent works, which are to be come at no where else but in that fine collection of practicaltheses, which M.Haller(who desires and promotes the advancement of medical knowledge, with as much zeal as discernment) has taken the pains to publish, under this title:Disputationes ad morborum historiam & curationem facientes. Lausanne, 1758. The name of the author is a sufficient attestation of the merit of the work, which bids fair to become one of the foundations of a library of practical study. The piece, which I am here quoting, is,Stephani WezpremiObservationes Medicæ, Trajecti, 1756. See T. vi. p. 804.[98]As he does not particularise the species, it can be no other than thelamium album, white archangel, or thelamium maculatum.[99]A practical essay on the Tabes dorsalis,etc.the fourth edition, p. 20 and 25.[100]Sect. 10. p. 27. alsoRobinson Consumptions, p. 98.[101]Ibid. p. 26 and 28.[102]Medic. annuus, T. ii. p. 216.[103]De perspir. insensib.p. 504.[104]De curat. acutorum, L. ii. c. iii. p. 103.[105]Sect. 6. Aphor. 22.[106]P. 27.[107]ΓΑΛΑΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ.Tentamen, &c. Basle, 1707.[108]Ibid. Sect. 32.[109]De Diæta acuta.L. iii. c. 12.Foes.368.[110]M.Thierry, anonymous author ofLa Medecine Experimentale. When an author publishes so valuable a work, he ought not to wish or imagine that he can long remain unknown, nor fear the being discovered. The moment that we shall have all that work compleat, it will furnish a considerable epoch in the history of physic.[111]Tabes Dorsalis, Sect. 9.[112]Sect. ix.[113]Epidem.L. vi. §. 4. Aphor. 14.Foes.1180.[114]Observat. et Curat.L. i. Obs. 10. T. i. p. 122.[115]On sea voyages, p. 117.[116]A Letter shewing what is the proper preparation of persons for inoculation.Sect. iv.[117]Traité de Cœur.L. iv. c. 1. § 2. T. ii. p. 263.[118]Sect. 484.[119]Recueil periodique d’Observations de Médecine, T. vi. p. 195. In the second volume of which same work may be seen the description of a disorder produced by the same cause, which deserves attention.[120]ΨΥΧΡΟΔΥΣΙΑ, or the History of Cold Bathing, p. 254, 281.[121]Sect. x.[122]℞.Myrrh. eclect. unc. S. Gum. Galb. extr. trifol. Terr. Japon. a̅a̅ dr.ii.Sin. cort. aur. q. s. f. pil. gr.iii.To be taken an hour before breakfast, dinner, and supper, with three ounces of the following draught:℞.Cort. Peruv.℥ii.Cort. rad. capp.℥i.Cinnam. acut.ʒii.Lim. Mart. in nodul. lax.℥ß.S. cum aq. font.lib. ii ß.l. a, f. decoct.[123]This passage is taken from a Dissertation of this learned Physician,On the foundations of health. See theDanish Mercury for July 1758. p. 95.[124]De puerorum institutione, Cap. x.[125]Supplement à l’Ouvrage de Penelope, Chap. i. p. 35. “Amabilis ille Dux se posuerat extra matrimonium; ego illum reposui intra.”[126]Medical Observations and Enquiries, T. i. p. 36.[127]In febre ex venere cavendum a venæ sectione.Syntagma, L. i. tit. 2. c. 1.[128]On Sea voyages, p. 119.[129]De perspiratione insens.p. 514, 515.[130]Quod animi mores temperamenta sequentur.C. 9.Charterius, T. v. p. 457.[131]SeeRousseau’sEmilius, English Translation, Vol. ii. p. 188, & seq. Vol. iii. p. 155, &c.[132]De diut. morb.1. i. proem. p. 27.[133]De locis affectis, L. vi. c. 5.Charter.T. vii. p. 519.[134]Prax. admirand.L. i. Obs. 85.[135]Prax. admirand.L. i. Obs. 109, 110.[136]An ex negato veneris usu morbi, 1722.[137]Penelope, ch. 8.Des qualités necessaires aux medecins.[138]Nicolaus ZindeliusDe morbis ex castitate nimia oriundis.Basle, 1745.[139]Nosolog. medic.T. iv. p. 344.[140]Institutiones Pathologicæ, §. 563.[141]Galenus, Libr.De consuetudinibus,Charter. T. vi. p. 541. M.Maty,Dissertatio de consuetudinis efficacia in corpus humanum, Leyd. 1740. M.Pujatihas also given us some very good reflexions on this matter, in his TreatiseDe la Diéte des Fievreux, p. 57, &c. Metaphysicians, who appear to have the best handled this point, are Mr.Locke,Essays, L. ii. c. 32, M. deCondillac,Traité des animaux, p. 2. c. 2. and 9. and the anonymous authordes Elemens de Physiologie, c. 61, 62, 63, 64. I know a man that, having been waked, above twenty years before, at one after midnight, by an alarm of fire, has since that time constantly waked of himself precisely at that hour.[142]Epidem.L. vi. §. 8. n. 52.Foesul.1201.[143]De semine, Lib. ii. cap. 1.Charter.T. iii p. 213.[144]Obs. Chirurg.Cent. i. Obs. 22.[145]Cons. 102.[146]Cas. 102.[147]Institut.§. 776.[148]Consult.Cent. 2 & 3. Op. T. iii. p. 214.[149]Epid.L. vi. § 3. No. 13.Foes.1173.[150]Ibid.La Mettrie, T. vii. p. 214.[151]De Medicina, Lib. iv. cap. 21.[152]Medicus, sive de methodo medendi, L. i. c. 22.[153]Praxis medica, L. iii. Part. ix. Sect. 2. c. 4.[154]De morb. nervor.p. 717. This Work, gathered from his Lessons, from 1730 to 1745, and in that posterior by some years to the Lessons collected by M.de Haller, proves thatBoerhaavehad changed his opinion as to the possibility of a purely seminalgonorrhœa; and it is well known, that that great man was always ready to renounce his former ideas to adopt new ones, the instant he was convinced of their being the justest.[155]G. L. KoempfDe morbis ex atrophia, Basle, 1756.[156]Historia plantarum, &c. p. 51.[157]L. iv. c. 8.[158]P. 231.[159]Oper. Omn. p. 544.[160]SeeJ. J. MangetiBibliotheca medico-practica, T. ii. p. 625.[161]Ibid. 624.[162]Colleg. pract. special.C. ii. T. i. p. 459.[163]Usus Opii salubris et noxius, p. 131.

[1]Montesquieu,Persian Lett.49.

[2]The title of the Original French isOnanisme, which is changed in this translation, to avoid the mistake of the one work for the other.

[3]BoerhaavePrælectiones ad Inst.§. 658. 1. 5. p. 444. Edit. Goett.

[4]De Morbis, Lib. ii. cap. 49. Foes. 479.

[5]De glandulis.Foes. p. 273.

[6]De re medica, Lib. i. cap. 9 & 11.

[7]De signis et causis dict. morb.Lib. ii. cap. 5.

[8]L. i. c. 7. p. 34. Edit.Boerhaave.

[9]Comm. tert. in Lib. iii. Hipp.De morb. vulg.Oper. Omn. tom. iii. p. 583.

[10]Historia mundi, Lib. vii. cap. 53. p. 124.

[11]Tetrab.Serm. iii. cap. 34.

[12]Medic. Static.Sect. 6. Aphor. 15. 19. 21. 23 & 24.

[13]Commentar. de sanitate tuenda, p. m. 37.

[14]Obs. Medic.L. iii. c. 24.

[15]Zipæus,Fundam. Med.Part. ii. Art. 6.

[16]Instit. Medic.Part. ii. cap. 28.

[17]Praxis Chirurgic.Decur. i. Obs. 4.

[18]Decur. ii. Ann. 5. Append. Obs. 88. p. 56.

[19]SchelammerArs medendi univers.Lib. ii. Sect. ii. Cap. iv. §. 23.

[20]Consult. Cent.2 & 3. Cas. 102. T. iii. p. 293.

[21]Same place, Cas. 103.

[22]Same place.

[23]De morbis ex nimia venere, § 18. Oper. Omn. Suppl. sec. Pars prim. p. 496.

[24]Institut.§ 77. Translated into French by M. D. L. M.

[25]Comment.on the foregoing quotation, T. vii. p. 214.

[26]Institut. physiol.§ 870. 872.

[27]De insensib. perspir.cap. ult.

[28]Aphor.586. T. ii. p. 46.

[29]De morb. anim. ab infirm. medull. cer.p. 37.

[30]Opera Omnia, fol. T. iii. p. 295.

[31]Lewis’sTab. Dorf.p. 12.

[32]Lewis’sTab. Dors.p. 16.

[33]Immoderata seminis profusio, non solum utilissimi humoris jactura, sed ipso etiam motu convulsivo, quo emittitur, frequentius repetito, imprimis lædit. Etenim summam voluptatem universalis excipit virium resolutio, quæ crebro ferri nequit, quin enervet. Colatoria autem corporis quo magis emulgentur, eo plus humorum aliunde ad se trahunt, succisque sic ad genitalia derivatis reliquæ partes depauperantur. Inde ex nimia venere, lassitudo, debilitas, immobilitas, incessus delumbis, encephali dolores, convulsiones sensuum omnium, maxime visus, hebetatio, cæcitas, fatuitas, circulatio febrilis, exsiccatio, macies, tabes & pulmonica & dorsalis, effeminatio. Augentur hæc mala, atque insanabilia fiunt, ob perpetuum in venerem pruritum, quem mens non minus quam corpus tandem contrahit, quoque efficitur ut & dormientes obscæna phantasmata exerceant, & in tentiginem pronæ partes quavis occasione impetum concipiant, onerique & stimulo sit quamlibet exigua reparati spermatis copia, levissimo conatu, & vel sine hoc, de relaxatis loculis relapsura. Quo circa liquet quare adolescentiæ florem adeo pessundet iste excessus.Institutiones PathologiæMedicin. Auctore H.D.Gaubio, Leyden, 1758.

Institutiones PathologiæMedicin. Auctore H.D.Gaubio, Leyden, 1758.

[34]Consult. Med.T. ii. p. 16.

[35]Dated the 15th September, 1755.

[36]Decur. ii. ann. 4. Obs. 166. p. 327.

[37]Schenckius, L. i. Obs. 2. 36.

[38]§. 1077. T. iii. p. 429.

[39]Quæst. med.An Epilepsiæ Merc. util.

[40]De locis affectis, L. v. c. 6.

[41]Observationes medicæ(oppido raræ,) Obs. 18.

[42]§. 1075. T. iii. p. 412.

[43]De morb. nerv., p. 462.

[44]Nosologia methodica, seu classes morborum, t. 5.

[45]Ad. §. 658. n. f. c. 5. p. 446.

[46]Epidem.L. iii. sect. 3. æg. 16.Foes.p. 1117.

[47]De morb. ex nim. ven.§ 20, 21.

[48]Nic. ChesneauObserv. medic.lib. v. Obs. 36, 37.

[49]Nosol.T. ii, p. 262.

[50]De sanitate tuenda, p. 110.

[51]Aphor.sect. 6. 46.

[52]De ætate conjugio opportuna, Sect. 10. Suppl. 2do. p. 340. The whole Dissertation deserves perusal, though it might have been better written.

[53]Juven.Sat. vi. ver. 321.

[54]De genitura, Foes. p. 231.

[55]De spermate, L. i. C. i. T. viii. p. 135.

[56]De semine, L. i. C. xxv. T. i. p. 1281.

[57]Cas. 102. p. 193.

[58]De perspiratione insensibili, Cap. xvii. § 5. pag. 219. In 1720, the Dr.D. A. Jacquesmaintained, at Paris, a thesis on this question, “An humorum præstantior semen?” and, according to custom, defended the affirmative.

[59]I adopt, or appear to adopt here, the common system of the absorbent power of the ordinary veins. In Mr.Hunter’ssystem, who will have it that the absorption is only made by the lymphatic vein, the parts of generation are equally proper for a very considerable absorption, since they abound in vessels of that kind.

[60]De semine, L. i. C. xxxiv. T. i. p. 1279.

[61]Hall.Prim. lin. phys.§. 790. Besides which there may be consulted upon this head,WhartonDe glandulis;RusselDe œconomia natur. in glandul. morb.p. 92.SchmeiderDe regressuseminis ad massam sanguineam.Supplement aux actes des Sçavans de Lipsie, T. v. p. 552. and a croud of other physiological authors.

[62]Such as are curious to see an excellent work upon these imperfect men, will find their account in perusing a treatise ofWithofDe castratis.

[63]Fel. PlateriObs.lib. i.Suffocatio ex congressu, p. 174.

[64]Epidem.L. iii. æg. 17.Foes.p. 1117.

[65]Encycl. med.L. ii. c. 6. p. 347.

[66]Neuropathia, L. i. ver. 375.

[67]Sect. 6. Aph. 10.

[68]De motu animali, L. ii. cap. xii. Prop. 170.

[69]Traité du Cœur, L. iv. cap. xii. §. 3. p. 539.

[70]Aphor. 4. p. 6.

[71]De morbis a nim. ven.sect. 17.

[72]Abstract fromLynch’sGuide to health, p. 306.

[73]Q. Serenus Samn.

[74]In tentigine ardentissima juvenum inest quid grati in ore ventriculi; in concubitum si ruunt salacissimi, et ultra vires tendant opus, tunc in ore ventriculi manet illud ingratissimum, amarumque quod exprimere nequeunt: pœnas et luunt, et pœnitentia dolent: hinc macies, marasmus, &c.G. R. de PayvaDe affectu atrabiliario, mirachiali, etc.p. 17.

[75]De morbis chronicis, L. ii. c. 6. “Stomachus delectationis tristitiæque princeps est.”

[76]De morb. nerv.p. 454.

[77]Ibid. p. 807.

[78]De perspiratione, Cap. xvii. § 8-12. andAph.

[79]The works of the lateClifton Wintringham, T. ii. p. 85, &c.

[80]Comment. in lib. de Diæta, p. 228.

[81]Regnier, Sat. v. The sense of which is nearly as follows:Not by intrinsic merit things are tried,But humor, character, their worth decide;Man judging as he’s, at the time, inclin’d,So versatile, so weak’s the human mind.

[81]Regnier, Sat. v. The sense of which is nearly as follows:

Not by intrinsic merit things are tried,But humor, character, their worth decide;Man judging as he’s, at the time, inclin’d,So versatile, so weak’s the human mind.

Not by intrinsic merit things are tried,

But humor, character, their worth decide;

Man judging as he’s, at the time, inclin’d,

So versatile, so weak’s the human mind.

[82]LucretiusDe natura rerum.

[83]De Aere, Locis, et Aquis.Foes.p. 293.

[84]Sect. 6. Aphor. 35.

[85]De natura pueri, Text. 22.Foes.p. 242.

[86]Translated from the French. There may also be seen an excellent passage on the force and dangers of voluptuous habits, in a new Treatise of M.Pujatti, Professor at Padua, long of great reputation for his admirable workDe victu febricitantium, p. 63.

[87]SeeGaubiiInstitutiones pathologicæ, §. 529.

[88]P. 126.

[89]Excerptum totius Italicæ et Helveticæ Literaturæ, pro anno 1759.T. i. p. 93.

[90]OnExperience.In German, by M.Zimmerman, vol. ii. p. 400. I take this fragment from those which his friendship has engaged him to translate in my favor. Almost all the other will serve to adorn a work of which I am preparing the publication, which will soon follow this.

[91]The demonstration of this truth may be seen in the part I am quoting of M.Senac’s treatiseOn the Heart, L. iii. §. 7., a work that seemed to have left nothing more to be wished for upon that subject, if its illustrious author had not, in his promise of a second edition, given us to understand, that he could yet render it more perfect. A great man may surpass himself, and see a point of perfection, which others do not so much as imagine.

[92]Lessons on his Institutes, Sect. 776.

[93]De ratione victus in morbis acutis.Foes.p. 405, 406.

[94]De morb. a nimia venere, §. 24, & 26.

[95]Instit. de med.T. vii. p. 215.

[96]This symptom is very frequent among persons who have exhausted themselves by venery, and contributes to prolong or maintain that exhaustion. The smallest temptation produces a beginning of erection, which is followed by an efflux of the seed.

[97]The one selected here is the seventh. This thesis, so worthy of perusal, is to be found, together with a great number of other small excellent works, which are to be come at no where else but in that fine collection of practicaltheses, which M.Haller(who desires and promotes the advancement of medical knowledge, with as much zeal as discernment) has taken the pains to publish, under this title:Disputationes ad morborum historiam & curationem facientes. Lausanne, 1758. The name of the author is a sufficient attestation of the merit of the work, which bids fair to become one of the foundations of a library of practical study. The piece, which I am here quoting, is,Stephani WezpremiObservationes Medicæ, Trajecti, 1756. See T. vi. p. 804.

[98]As he does not particularise the species, it can be no other than thelamium album, white archangel, or thelamium maculatum.

[99]A practical essay on the Tabes dorsalis,etc.the fourth edition, p. 20 and 25.

[100]Sect. 10. p. 27. alsoRobinson Consumptions, p. 98.

[101]Ibid. p. 26 and 28.

[102]Medic. annuus, T. ii. p. 216.

[103]De perspir. insensib.p. 504.

[104]De curat. acutorum, L. ii. c. iii. p. 103.

[105]Sect. 6. Aphor. 22.

[106]P. 27.

[107]ΓΑΛΑΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ.Tentamen, &c. Basle, 1707.

[108]Ibid. Sect. 32.

[109]De Diæta acuta.L. iii. c. 12.Foes.368.

[110]M.Thierry, anonymous author ofLa Medecine Experimentale. When an author publishes so valuable a work, he ought not to wish or imagine that he can long remain unknown, nor fear the being discovered. The moment that we shall have all that work compleat, it will furnish a considerable epoch in the history of physic.

[111]Tabes Dorsalis, Sect. 9.

[112]Sect. ix.

[113]Epidem.L. vi. §. 4. Aphor. 14.Foes.1180.

[114]Observat. et Curat.L. i. Obs. 10. T. i. p. 122.

[115]On sea voyages, p. 117.

[116]A Letter shewing what is the proper preparation of persons for inoculation.Sect. iv.

[117]Traité de Cœur.L. iv. c. 1. § 2. T. ii. p. 263.

[118]Sect. 484.

[119]Recueil periodique d’Observations de Médecine, T. vi. p. 195. In the second volume of which same work may be seen the description of a disorder produced by the same cause, which deserves attention.

[120]ΨΥΧΡΟΔΥΣΙΑ, or the History of Cold Bathing, p. 254, 281.

[121]Sect. x.

[122]℞.Myrrh. eclect. unc. S. Gum. Galb. extr. trifol. Terr. Japon. a̅a̅ dr.ii.Sin. cort. aur. q. s. f. pil. gr.iii.To be taken an hour before breakfast, dinner, and supper, with three ounces of the following draught:℞.Cort. Peruv.℥ii.Cort. rad. capp.℥i.Cinnam. acut.ʒii.Lim. Mart. in nodul. lax.℥ß.S. cum aq. font.lib. ii ß.l. a, f. decoct.

[122]

℞.Myrrh. eclect. unc. S. Gum. Galb. extr. trifol. Terr. Japon. a̅a̅ dr.ii.Sin. cort. aur. q. s. f. pil. gr.iii.

To be taken an hour before breakfast, dinner, and supper, with three ounces of the following draught:

℞.Cort. Peruv.℥ii.Cort. rad. capp.℥i.Cinnam. acut.ʒii.Lim. Mart. in nodul. lax.℥ß.S. cum aq. font.lib. ii ß.l. a, f. decoct.

[123]This passage is taken from a Dissertation of this learned Physician,On the foundations of health. See theDanish Mercury for July 1758. p. 95.

[124]De puerorum institutione, Cap. x.

[125]Supplement à l’Ouvrage de Penelope, Chap. i. p. 35. “Amabilis ille Dux se posuerat extra matrimonium; ego illum reposui intra.”

[126]Medical Observations and Enquiries, T. i. p. 36.

[127]In febre ex venere cavendum a venæ sectione.Syntagma, L. i. tit. 2. c. 1.

[128]On Sea voyages, p. 119.

[129]De perspiratione insens.p. 514, 515.

[130]Quod animi mores temperamenta sequentur.C. 9.Charterius, T. v. p. 457.

[131]SeeRousseau’sEmilius, English Translation, Vol. ii. p. 188, & seq. Vol. iii. p. 155, &c.

[132]De diut. morb.1. i. proem. p. 27.

[133]De locis affectis, L. vi. c. 5.Charter.T. vii. p. 519.

[134]Prax. admirand.L. i. Obs. 85.

[135]Prax. admirand.L. i. Obs. 109, 110.

[136]An ex negato veneris usu morbi, 1722.

[137]Penelope, ch. 8.Des qualités necessaires aux medecins.

[138]Nicolaus ZindeliusDe morbis ex castitate nimia oriundis.Basle, 1745.

[139]Nosolog. medic.T. iv. p. 344.

[140]Institutiones Pathologicæ, §. 563.

[141]Galenus, Libr.De consuetudinibus,Charter. T. vi. p. 541. M.Maty,Dissertatio de consuetudinis efficacia in corpus humanum, Leyd. 1740. M.Pujatihas also given us some very good reflexions on this matter, in his TreatiseDe la Diéte des Fievreux, p. 57, &c. Metaphysicians, who appear to have the best handled this point, are Mr.Locke,Essays, L. ii. c. 32, M. deCondillac,Traité des animaux, p. 2. c. 2. and 9. and the anonymous authordes Elemens de Physiologie, c. 61, 62, 63, 64. I know a man that, having been waked, above twenty years before, at one after midnight, by an alarm of fire, has since that time constantly waked of himself precisely at that hour.

[142]Epidem.L. vi. §. 8. n. 52.Foesul.1201.

[143]De semine, Lib. ii. cap. 1.Charter.T. iii p. 213.

[144]Obs. Chirurg.Cent. i. Obs. 22.

[145]Cons. 102.

[146]Cas. 102.

[147]Institut.§. 776.

[148]Consult.Cent. 2 & 3. Op. T. iii. p. 214.

[149]Epid.L. vi. § 3. No. 13.Foes.1173.

[150]Ibid.La Mettrie, T. vii. p. 214.

[151]De Medicina, Lib. iv. cap. 21.

[152]Medicus, sive de methodo medendi, L. i. c. 22.

[153]Praxis medica, L. iii. Part. ix. Sect. 2. c. 4.

[154]De morb. nervor.p. 717. This Work, gathered from his Lessons, from 1730 to 1745, and in that posterior by some years to the Lessons collected by M.de Haller, proves thatBoerhaavehad changed his opinion as to the possibility of a purely seminalgonorrhœa; and it is well known, that that great man was always ready to renounce his former ideas to adopt new ones, the instant he was convinced of their being the justest.

[155]G. L. KoempfDe morbis ex atrophia, Basle, 1756.

[156]Historia plantarum, &c. p. 51.

[157]L. iv. c. 8.

[158]P. 231.

[159]Oper. Omn. p. 544.

[160]SeeJ. J. MangetiBibliotheca medico-practica, T. ii. p. 625.

[161]Ibid. 624.

[162]Colleg. pract. special.C. ii. T. i. p. 459.

[163]Usus Opii salubris et noxius, p. 131.

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