A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease : To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands. Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck, professor of surgery and midwifery, at Vienna. The second edition. To which is prefixed, A table, exhibiting, at one view, all the preparations of mercury, reduced under proper heads. With an appendix of remarks on Mr. Plenck; together with some experiments and observations which ascertain with more accuracy a steady and uniform method of giving his medicine; and a short and easy method of preparing the mercurius calcinatus. By William Saunders, M.D.