A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

  • Spilsbury, Francis
Date:
[1775?]
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Credit: A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to prefcribe but after iterated trials; which, as we fee, muft undoubtedly be productive of an irrefiftible and intimate conviction. It is on this ground we dare now to take upon ourfelves to recommend the following Treatife to the ferious and candid perufal of thofe who labour under any of the diforders therein mentioned; perfuaded that, by pay¬ ing a due attention to the reflections of the Author, and to his directions, they will find the falutary relief they with for, and, in many cafes, even prevent their falling a vic¬ tim to either of thofe two raging difeafes. But here, indeed, we cannot help remark¬ ing, with our Author, that in general N peo¬ ple are a great deal too apt to give into two very grofs errors. Firft, by placing an un-r reafonable, nay a moft ridiculous, depen¬ dence on the power of medicines and the abilities of phyficians: they expeCt thefe will work miracles; and, with that confidence, abandon themfelves brptiihly to the moft immoderate excefs of debauchery and luxu¬ rious living; till at laft they have entirely de- ftroyed in them the very foundations of health, on which the remedies could have kfid thejr aCiion, and operated 3 reiteration a 4 of
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