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

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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$that it was not us'd alone to cure thofe Difeáfes already mention’d, but was alfo given in many other Cafes; for he propofes it againit the Itch, and the Phthifia/is, or loufy Difeafe ; it was given _alfo in fome bilious Diforders, and asa fimple Pur- gative. In the fame Place he defcribes the Tha- laffimeli. Pliny, Marcellus and Serenus, do all with one Accord praife Sea-Water againft tumefied Tefticles ; for Pliny writes, + that it is preferable to every Thing to foment tumefied Tefficles ; and Mar- cellus fays, let tumefied Tefticles be moderately fa- mented with Sea-Water ; and this led. me to apply a Cataplafm in this Cafe, made of. Barley and Bean- Flour, boiled in Sea-Water, and join’d with Un- guentum Nutritum, and I found it a very powerful Difcutient. Moreover { Samonicus confirms, that it is bene ficial in the Sciatica, in the Gout, where he de- Ícribes the Vinum es ice and: alfo in Quartan Agues : Prodefl vel Potus, vel mulfus Doridis Bs But by the Word Doris, Serenus underftands $ea- Water ; ufing the fame Word, by which Virgil ex- preffes the Waters of the Sea in his tenth Eclogue; which is plain in this Place by the Addition of the Epithet amara, bitter, which is the diftinguifhing Quality of the Sea ; and he was fo happy in the Choice of Epithets, that by their Help, he could T Pliny’s Nat, Hift. Book XXXI. Cap. 7,. l] Q. Serenus Samouteus, Cap. 38. 3 : explain$