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Seawater - Therapeutic use

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  • A dissertation on the use of sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy, jaudice, king's-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption / Translated from the Latin ... by an eminent physician.
  • Richard Russell, physician at Brighton. Watercolour by Henry Wilkin after Benjamin Wilson.
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    A dissertation on sea-water : with the regimen proper to be observed in the use of it. Together with some practical hints on drinking the spaws, or any other medicinal waters. In a letter from a physician in the country to his friend in the town.

    | Date: [1755?]
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    A treatise on the use and abuse of mineral waters : Also rules necessary to be observed by invalids who visit the chalybeate springs of the Old and New Tunbridge Wells. Together with remarks on the immoderate use of sea water / By Hugh Smith.

    Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789. | Date: [1776?]
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    Morelechenie : Symposium Primum Thalassotherapicum Bulgariae cum Participartione Inrernationall [i.e. Internationali].

    Symposium Thalassotherapicum Bulgariae 1964 : Varna, Bulgaria) | Date: 1965
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    Observations on the effects of sea water in the scurvy and scrophula : in which a new theory of those diseases is attempted; with some reasons why bathing in fresh water must be much superior to that of the sea / By William Logan.

    Logan, William, 1747-1772. | Date: 1771
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    A dissertation on the use of sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy, jaudice, king's-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption / Translated from the Latin ... by an eminent physician.

    Russell, Richard, 1687-1759 | Date: 1753
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