An account of a safe and efficacious medicine in sore-eyes and eye-lids.
- Thomas Dawson
- Date:
- 1782
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of a safe and efficacious medicine in sore-eyes and eye-lids. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![t -4 ]j With Sir HansSioane, [ can fay, I have ever been more attentive to fadts, than to theory and fpeculation; and this it was, \vhich induced me to make every poffible enquiry, after a medicine for diftempered Eyes, which, above fifty years ago, was in the pofieffion of, and daily ufed by. Dr. Thomas Nettleton, of Hali- fax in Yorkshire, whofe merit as a man and as aphyfician, exceeds all encomiums. • t . My enquiries, however, for a length of time were as fruitlefs, as they were labo- rious : and though I proceeded in the beaten road of bleeding, blifiering, cup- ping, and in the ufe of leeches, liniments, wafhes, &c. it was by no means fatisfac- tory to me. Nor did Sir Hans’s famous panacea prove of greater, fcarce of equal, efficacy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21517721_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
