The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover.

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1771
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    112/266 page 98
    [ 9« ] I t c H, or Pruritus. rpHis is the moft common of all, very JL much infefting the Sea-Coafts of . England^ Scotland, and Ireland; and is very contagious. It is caufed generally by Fil— thinefs, and feeding much upon Fifh. This even the Illiterate allow to be vermicular. In hot Climates I have feen the Vermin moving in the Puftles. The Remedies which are ufed, undeniably prove the Difeafe to be very vermicular; for all Mercurial Oint¬ ments and Wafhes, nay, a Quickfilver Gir¬ dle, are the common Remedies; and we know nothing that fo infallibly deflroys Worms as Mercury. I shall now proceed to give a Defcrip- tion of moft of the Acute Difeafes amongft us, as I have done of the Chronic, except a Lethargy, which proceeds from too moift a Brain, and needs no Description, <c Take one Quart of Spring-Water, dif- cc folve in it one Dram of Sublimate, Cream u of Tartar half an Ounce: Wafh the c< Puftles
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3