The soldier's vade mecum: or, the method of curing the diseases and preserving the health of soldiers ... Translated from the Latin / ... To which is added, a treatise on the same subject, translated from Frederic Hoffman [sic] ... Also an essay on the diseases of sailors.

  • Lucantonio Porzio
Date:
1747
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Credit: The soldier's vade mecum: or, the method of curing the diseases and preserving the health of soldiers ... Translated from the Latin / ... To which is added, a treatise on the same subject, translated from Frederic Hoffman [sic] ... Also an essay on the diseases of sailors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in tte Lungs, Hence Coughs, Pleurifies, Pe-- ripneumonies, and Inflammations of all kinds,, Catarrhs; and, if the Cold is exceffive, Gan:-- grenes and Sphacelations are excited. Upom the whole, the Difeafes of Sailors in cold Cli-- mates differ little from what we experience int our own during Winter, and require the ae fame Methods of Cure. “With refpeét to the Scurvy, the Produ&:! both of hot and cold Climates, I have already: fpecify’d the Methods of preventing it, which: would, alfo, very much contribute to a Cure,, And Lam of Opinion, that the tbiops Anti=: monialis, taken in the Quantity of fifteen Grains, , or a Scruple twice a Day, would give eminent: Relief in this Diforder. When Germanicus Cafar, according to Piiny, , Lib. xxv. Cap. 3. had removed his Camp be- yond the Rhine in Germany, his Soldiers had only one Spring of. frefh Water, in that Mari- time Tract of Land, by drinking of which, in the fpace of two Years their Teeth fel] out of’ their Heads, and the Joints of their Knees were enfeebled and relaxed. For thefe Misfortunes; there was at laft a Remedy difcovered, which was the Herb Britannica, a mott falutary Medi- cine, not only tothe Nerves and in Diforders: of the Mouth, but alfo againft an Angina and- the Poilons of Serpents. “The #ri/fians who were in the Camp, firft fhew’d it to their Fellow- Soldiers, |