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 / [Anon].

  • William Logan
Date:
1770
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Credit: 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 / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r *6 ] is owing to a difeafe of the glands them- felves, and not to the matter which they (lionId tranfmit; for whatever changes may be made in diet, even after the ineffectual ufe of antimonials and mercurials, the difeaie has remained without alteration during the fummer, being more or lefs inveterate according to the temperature of the weacher 5 but as the cold weather ap¬ proached it gradually went off, and in- tirely difappeared at midwinter. This obfervation I have made in various cafes, and always found it hold good where the difeafe wras recent 5 in fome inftances this iad: has failed, but then I have remarked that the winter had been moift and warm, or the patient too much nurfed. Scro- phulous tumors generally appear about the neck and on the elbows; but from my own obfervations, I have reafon to believe that in fuch patients the mefenteric glands are more or lefs affedled; this I conclude from the fwelling and hardnefs of the abdomen, and the rapid emaciation which enfues.