The oeconomy of nature in acute and chronical diseases of the glands ... / Translated under the author's inspection.

  • Richard Russell
Date:
1755
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    crufts of the eruptions were kept fo cleari, that no impurities lodged, to fret and exco¬ riate the parts farther j and where the cu¬ taneous glands gleeted too much, I ufed the iing. depice hquidd^ or the following waftl: ]^. Pic, liquid, Aq, mar in, tbij. m<, ftentfimulper boras 24 ; turn cola. But fiading the eruptions look cool, and the pulfe quiet, I then let him return to the ufe; of fea water ; by which the fluxion was foon abated : and when the fores were all healing, he returned to fea bathing; which fltrength- ened the parts: and he has been very well, as far as I can learn, ever fince. In this cafe, there was a defquamation of the whole flcin, like the exuvtc^ of a ferpent. The fecond hiftory is alniofl: flmilar to the firft, but as it v/as attended with great emaci¬ ation, I will infert it. A woman, upon the ceafing of the menfesi had a return of a humid lepra^ which had left her from the time of puberty, or at the firft breaking down of the menfesy till now; This was one of the moft general cafes I ' ever faw of the kind, and had been increafed by imprudent and untimely fea bathing ^ the fait water having irritated the fore parts. The ^ itching