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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    | in drying up Ulcers ; and this Property of Sea-Wa- | ter is proved by modern Experience, for our Sur- geons have experienced its Power of healing in fcrophulous Ulcers of the Joints of the Wrift and Ankles, and the fame is fully fhewn in the feveral Examples mentioned in my Differtation. . But let us pafs over to the fubfequent State of | this Medicament. Cornelius Celfus, who is faid to have flourifh’d under the Reign of Tzberzus, tefti- fies, that 7 bezifon, who befides miany others, was of the School of //clepiades, prefcrib’d Brine in a Dyfentery ; and + Pliny, alfo writes, Brine is ufe- ful in Dyfenteries, even where there are Notnz or creeping Ulcers of the Inteftines: As alfo in feiatie Cafes, and to thofe who are affected with an invete- rate celiac Paffion. In the inland Countries it is us'd for Fomentations inftead of Sea Water. . From hence, it plainly appears, that this Salt Medicament was not ufed only in the Dyfentery, but even in thofe Cafes where the Inteftines were affected with Nome, or eating and creeping Ul- cers; by which Word Pliny, in many Placess - tranflates and exprefles the Herpetas of Diofcorides, It is evident therefore, from the foregoing Ob- fervations, that Sea-Water was a Part of the AZa- teria Medica, from the Time of Mithridates’s De- feat to the Age of Tiberius Cefar ; and then thofe two Writers, Pliny and Diofcorides (who liv’d much about the Times of Nero and Vefpafian) tranfcrib'd many Things from the antient Way Acs ; t Pliny, Book XXXI. Chap. 8, K ans