A rational and useful account of the venereal disease : with observations on the nature, symptoms, and cure, and the bad consequences that attend by ill management; with proper Admonitions; recommended as a Friendly Instruction to all Persons who do, or may, labour under this Misfortune. Also a short enquiry into old gleets, and other Weaknesses; and the Reason why they are so seldom cur'd: With the Author's Method of Cure. To which are added, Some Hints on the Practical Scheme, the Methods and Medicines therein expos'd, and the gross Impositions justly detected. With An Account of Specificks; the Use and Abuse of the Name, and how it covers Ignorance and a Cheat. By Joseph Cam, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cam, Joseph, d. 1743.

Standardized Title:

Short account of the venereal disease

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexually transmitted diseases--Early works to 1800.

Sexually transmitted diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([14],74,[10]p. )

Edition:

The eighth edition, corrected, with additions.

Other Title:

Rational and useful account of the venereal disease

Place of Publication:

London : printed for, and sold by G. Strahan against the Royal Exchange, W. Mears without Temple-Bar, C. King in Westminster-Hall, T. Norris on London-Bridge, and J. Baker against Hatton-Garden in Holborn, [1740?]

Notes:

First published as 'A short account of the venereal disease'.

The unpaged leaves after p.74 contain a postscript and the table of contents.

P.2 misnumbered 16.

Price from imprint: Price stitch'd in Marble Paper 1 s.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T18393.

OCLC:

642506485