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
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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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    aloft covered with Spots and Scales : But this you dre well acquainted with , and others should underftand that the fame Hélps agree with all Patients as well as with all Diftempers, and would certainly agree with them more eafily and frequently if their Ufe was more accurately ob- ferved, by Perfons rightly qualified. , When a Gronchocele hath continued a long ‘Time it generally contains extravafated Hu- ‘mours, which muft be treated by manual Operation. In the mean Time I perfuade the Patients to fhave their Heads, and expofe their Necks ‘to the cold Air, and to rub them with moift |Sea- wreck, upon the Decline of the Tumours (of the concatenated Glands, [of the Neck] for ‘nothing, as far as I can judge, does fo much “weaken the Tone of the infirm’ Parts as the Ufe of warm Cloathing. Indeed the whoie Regimen, of Cloaths, Food, Air, and Medi- cines fhould be cold, which often prevents a Scirrhus or a Cancer; for the warmer State of - the Air makes thefe Diftempers more common among the Afatics than in the more Northern Countries., 4s to external Caufes, chufe a cold and moift Air, chiefly cold, Hence Cancers are feldom found in Germany, but frequently in Afia. See Fabricius ab Aqud® Pend, p. 120. I