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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    But thofe Remedies of the Ancients before-. mention'd, for the lax and infirm Habit of their , Patients, fuggeft to.me thefe two Obfervations s . one, that by giving thofe Medicines which de-. ftroy the fharp Humours, and ‘correét the Aci- dities collected in the Stomach and Inteftines, a . fweeter and more healthful Chyle is produced ; Flatulencies. are reprefled in the Bowels;. and . hence the Liver, Spleen, Pancreas, and Mefen- . : teric Glands, are lefs obnoxious to Obftructions ; . the other, that by. Sea Water joined. with other Medicines, the Glands may be. fuccefsfully . purg’d, and freed from. Obftructions ; after - — Which,. it: will be neceffary to ftrengthen the . whole Habit by cold Bathing.in the Sea, and : fo fortify the Conftitution againft néw Fluxions, Hitherto I have treated. of the Nature of di-. ftemper’d Glands in General ; but now. I pro-. ceed to their different States; of which a re-.. cent Fluxion on the Glands is firft to be.con-. fidered; then the State of Augmentation ; then. | the State of Inflammation ; and laftly, the Ter-. mination of the Difeafe, either from difperfing . the Tumor, or its turning into Pus, a Schirrus | or a Cancer.. And as my Defign is principally to . point out a Method of ‘Cure in thefe Diforders, T : think it proper to, begin. with the morbid State of the tracheal and pulmonary Glands. . When the. concatenated-Glands of the Neck, which are as it were linked together, and pro-..- ceed :