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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    we 92 - A- TREATISE or THe Dram. Mixit for a Draught, to be taken three times a Day. ; ; K Sperma Ceti one Scruple, prepared Pearls” ‘one Scruple, pearl Sugar half a Scruple. Mix “Shem and make a Powder, to be taken Night à - and Morning in a Spoonful of Affes Milk,” drinking after it a Draught of the fame. — —- By thefe Means, and by gentle Riding, his Lungs were cleanfed, and the Caufe being re- - moved, the Heétic Fever ceafed : But a little- Cough remaining, the Patient was removed to” Brighthelm/ftoney a Town near the Sea, that he | might be near the Remedy defigned for the, Cure of Obftru&tions. Then he firft took a” Purge of Glauber’s Salts and Manna, and _after, purfued this Method, 3 K- Of Ethiops Mineral twenty Grains; of] * Woodlice eight Grains, precipitated Sulphur® fix Grains, the Pulp of Caffia Fiftula, enough” to make them into a Bolus ; to be taken going 1 to Reft, drinking half a Pint of Sea Water? the next Morning. - hà les oqi K Tinéture of IFoadlice prepared with Ties — 4ure of Salt of Tartar two Ounces. Take a Tea-Spoonful an Hour before Dinner, every - Day, in a Draught of Briftol Water, mix'd 3 with a little Rhenifh. Wine... 5 à Jd ».'hefef - ^ *