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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    [ 3i> 1 As this difeafe affeds people of all ranks? and conditions of life, it mud fometimes happen, through poverty, that the fick are unable to bear the fmall expence of hav¬ ing the fea-water fent to them at the time it is mod wanted ; to fuch I have recomn mended a folution of three parts of Glau¬ ber’s fait to one of common fait in fpring- water, which will be a ufeful fubftitute when fea-water cannot be had. i Having faid thus much on fea-water, I fhall now confider our fecond indication, viz. to obviate debility and laxity of the fyftem, I have in the foregoing pages given my reafons why patients in the fcrophula are commonly fo much debilitated, and therefore I mud now remark that tonic remedies are not to be ufed till after the fea-water has been purfued for a considera¬ ble time; the general pradice has been to ufe them both indifcriminately y but I have never
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