Aristotle's works:: Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies — Aristotle — John Shaqi
Aristotle's works:: Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies
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Although the venereal disease may not be a proper subject of discussion
for regular families and the nursery, yet there are many individuals to
whom the observations here made may be of service in that complaint.
There is no disease which opens so wide a field for the quack, none in
which he so completely picks the pocket and ruins the constitution of
the ignorant and unwary. Mercury, though looked upon as a certain cure
in every species of this disease, is only proper in one; and though
every apothecary’s boy pretends to cure the venereal disease by it,
there is no medicine oftener misapplied. Though mercury is a certain
cure for the _lues venerea_, it is a medicine of so very active a nature
that it cannot be administered with too much care; it is the chief
ingredient in all the nostrums daily advertised for the cure of this
disease, and those who value their health or their life, should beware
of allowing themselves to become, in a matter so serious, the dupes of
imposture.
CONCLUSION.
COURTEOUS READER,
In the Works of the renowned and famous philosopher, ARISTOTLE, you have
got laid before you a Collection of the best Observations on the Secrets
of Nature, that ever the world was favoured with on the subject. Let me
now entreat you, who have read them, and all those who may hereafter do
so, to mark well what is therein contained, and thereby direct your
future conduct, which you will find to your advantage. Whatever young
and inconsiderate persons may think or say of what is herein contained,
it is absolutely necessary to be known; and, when reduced to practice,
may prove the happy means of preventing many fatal and lamentable
consequences, which ignorance and inconsideration produce. Farewell.
THE END.
JOHN SMITH, TOOLY STREET, LONDON.
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1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in
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2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
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