Observations on morbid poisons, phagedaena, and cancer : containing a comparative view of the theories of Dr. Swediaur, John Hunter, Messrs. Foot, Moore and Bell, on the laws of the venereal virus. And also some preliminary remarks on the language and mode of reasoning adopted by medical writers / By Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
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Credit: Observations on morbid poisons, phagedaena, and cancer : containing a comparative view of the theories of Dr. Swediaur, John Hunter, Messrs. Foot, Moore and Bell, on the laws of the venereal virus. And also some preliminary remarks on the language and mode of reasoning adopted by medical writers / By Joseph Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than is ever experienced in chancres of that date and extent. In the comic of ten days more, all the fymptoms had nearly fubfidcd, and two days after, the remedy is laid afide: the ulcerations being perfeftly healed, and every other fymptora of indifpofition vanifhed, and this, as far as the account informs us, without ptyalifm, or any other mercurial irritation having been excited The fe- condary fymptoms occurred between a fortnight and three weeks after the primary ones. They were blotches which never ulcerated, and difap- peared fome days before the primary fymptoms. In thefe two cafes mercury was not exhibited till the appearance of the fecondary fymptoms. I have, therefore, referved them as a more (Ink- ing proof, that fecondary fymptoms yield ear. lier to mercury than primary ones, 'which may fairly be accounted for by the difeafe conftantly recurring in a milder form. The fecond propofition ; that mercury will not prevent thofe fecondary fymptoms which it will cure, is fo entirely Mr. Hunter's difcOvery, that I mall referve the proofs of it till we come to re- view his theory of the venereal. At prefent I can only dtreQ the reader's recollection to thofe cafes in which the'jaclinas occurred.* * See page 108. Alio the cafes referred to in the note of page ic6. K 2 It