Volume 1

The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practise, or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies / By Thomas Dovar, M.D. [sic].

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1733
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practise, or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies / By Thomas Dovar, M.D. [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    en the Surface of it. When all thefe Symp- toms meet, they conftitute this Diftemper. _ The Sort of Water defcribed is very com- mon in what) Phyficians call Scorbutick Cafes. — Upon which, after the Learned Dr, Wills has made a very long Harangue about hot Scurvy and cold Scurvy, Imuft own my Capacity too weaktocomprehend his Meaning; nor do I believe the Difeafe owed its Name to any Thing, but that when the Phyficians met — with a Diftemper they knew little of, they called it a {curvy one. . One Mr. Fonathan Keate, fome time after — Surgeon to the Hofpital at King’s Town in Jamaica, was fo far. gone in a Diabetes, that he was not able to get out of his Cabin.— I was on Board with fome Company, who told me the Surgeon of the Ship lay dangeroufly il], and defired to fee me.— I foon perceived his Diftemper, and fent him from Shore what © I thought proper. In three or four Days he came to Port Royal, to return Thanks for. the great Service I had done him. He did, as we fay, pancratice valere, and fo continued. This is thirty Years fince. About fix Years fince, I faw him in Town ; he lodg- ed in St. Martin’s-Lane, and was then jutt come from Barcelona. I fhall only give one Inftance more: A Perfon, recommended to me by his Grace the late Duke of Richmoxd, -was fo weak in . this Diftemper, that he could hardly ftand, I order’d him ten Days after to meet |