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.

  • Richard Russell
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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    Paffage, muít neceflarily occafion Tumors there. Ihave feen Tumors in the Glands of the Neck, that were occafioned only by the Irritation of Blifters behind the Ears, And. /¥ifeman mentions the Cafe of a Perfon who Jay a Summer’s Night upon a Form, but his Head hanging down, while he flept, one Side of his Neck lay. upon the Edge of the Form, When he awoke he found feveral Swellings in the Glands.of his Neck; fome of which were as big as Walnuts.* The fame Author ob- ferved, that the fame happened to Children when the 'onfils were comprefled by being bound too tight. A.Pain in the Breaft brings a Fluxion on the axillary Glands, and Difeafes of the Legs and Thighs caufe Swellings in the inguinal Glands. Numberlefs Examples -of this Nature might be produced. * This Paffage in Wifeman’s own Words is as follows, Page 392. : I fhall give you one remarkable Inftance of a Cook's Ser- vant in the O/d Baily, who fleeping one Summer's Night on. a Form, his Head flipping off, the one Side of his Neck prefied upon the End of it; when he wakened his Neck was full of Strum@ on both Sides, fome as big as Walnuts, others lefs ; they were of d.fferent Figures, and diftinét from one another. The Strume continued, and after a few Days apdéftemated and mattered, and became virulent. U]- cers ; he died tabid within half a Year. A fireight Stay, as fome Women .and. Children. wear. them, hath too often had the fame Effect. Pain in the Breaft makes them under the Arms; and in ill Habits of Body, a fore Leg hath often caufed as much in the Gy ONS, T here-