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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    “aking a flight Cold, where the Diforder does not | go off but by-the Help of a warmer and drier Air ‘which encreafes the Perfpiration. But if the Ob@ruG@i- ons.of all the Pores are increafed, then the Seamen are deprived of this Help, as well as of Exercife ; and ‘hence it happens, that the Difeafecannot fometimes | be reftrain’d by the Power of Medicines till the Patients enjoy a drier Air, And the extreme Ob- fuüacy of this Difeafe, and what Relief may be had if the Seamen continues upon the Sea may be proved by the Lord Aifon’s Voyage, and alfo by daily Experience ; for they are fooner and more -eafily recovered, if they come afhore where the Air they breath is better and drier, The Reafon of which is known to the People of Norway, and isobferved by them in the Cure of the Scurvy ; for as Barthelinus writes in his Treatife De Medicina Danorum Domeflica, they do not ga- ther Mulberries and carry them home to the Pati- tients, but thinkitbetter to go t» Places where they grow, and eat what Quantity they will, and ftay upon the Place til! the Scurvy difappears. I ] have thus laid before you, moft accomplifhed Sir, almoft every Thing that the Antients thought Salt, and Salt Water could perform againft Putre- faction, which perhaps fome will think more and others: lefs, than the Nature of the thing requir’d 3 but your Candour will eafily pardon a Slip in fuch a dificult Way, and which has been fo little known; But of what Weight are thefe Authorities of the Antients, and how little are they to be-minded if ' ‘compared