A dissertation on the pox [electronic resource] : In which are fully Explain'd, its Nature, Symptoms, Progress and Cure, whether in a Simple or Compound State. Also A Full Enquiry into the Use of Specificks, How far they may be depended on for Cure, and when, and in what Cases a Salivation is needful: In which the Force and Efficacy of Mercury is freely and mechanically explain'd, in all Venereal Cases. With some Remarks On the Montpelier-Practice, and its Advocates; especially, on a Letter from a London-Physician, to his Friend in the Country, &c. wherein the Reader will be convinc'd of the Difference of the Internal and External Use of Alteratives. Interspers'd with some Histories of Cures perform'd by Specificks and Salivations. Also proper Prescriptions for the Cure of the Venereal Disease in all its Stages, are freely communicated. The Whole being a Succinct Treatise of that Distemper. By Joseph Cam, M. D.