A dissertation on the use of sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy, jaudice, king's-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption / Translated from the Latin ... by an eminent physician.

  • Russell, Richard, 1687-1759
Date:
1753
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Credit: A dissertation on the use of sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy, jaudice, king's-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption / Translated from the Latin ... by an eminent physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    win The REC By by the other Part, that it can fcarcely exert its Power in a concrete Form. And Salt is of fuch a fix'd Nature, that it never yields to Putrefaction: Whence it preferves other Bodies fo remarkably ; for, according to Dr. Hales, Spirit of Salt fo powerfully refifts Putrefaction, that three Drops there- of, in an Ounce of Water, will preferve Flefh a long Time. And in another Ex- periment he fays, that putting raw Beef into SzA-WaTzR not well diftill’d, the aftringent Power of the Water was fo great, that contracting the minute Blood- Veffels, no Blood would flow therefrom. The next Quality is Bzternefs, which it is fuppofed to acquire from the bituminous Parts of the fubjacent Earth ; for it is pro- pell’d thro’ innumerable Paffages by fub- terranean Fires, which impregnate the Sz a- Water, as the Fume of Sulphur pene- trates Wine : Wherefore, it is very proba- ble that Se a-Warer is the more bitter the deeper it is taken ; and this fulphureous Bi- that Marfilinus affirms, that the diftilled SgA-WaTER cannot be drank, for its Quantity of Bitumen which is more nau- | Ícous.