Observations on the effects of sea water in the scurvy and scrophula: in which a new theory of those diseases is attempted; with some reasons why bathing in fresh water must be much superior to that of the sea / By William Logan, M.D.

  • William Logan
Date:
1770
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Credit: Observations on the effects of sea water in the scurvy and scrophula: in which a new theory of those diseases is attempted; with some reasons why bathing in fresh water must be much superior to that of the sea / By William Logan, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ) [ 6 ] various parts, but modly about the legs ; fometimes dry pudular eruptions, not unlike thofe of the miliary kind, are fcattered over the whole body. Wander¬ ing pains are felt every-where, but thare is commonly a fixed pain in the bread:, attended with ftri&ure, which is generally increafed upon any attempt to cough. There is an uncommon difcharge of faliva, which is greatly increafed with the dualled dofe of mercury. In this malig¬ nant dage of the diforder, the blood be¬ ing entirely didolved, is poured out on every hand, burding through the fears of old wounds which have been healed many years; but very commonly more plenti¬ fully from the gums, nofe, and hemor¬ rhoidal veflfels— the teeth become loofe and fall out; the callus of old broken bones is diffolved, and they begin to looien ; the difficulty of breathing is daily increafed, and fuch is the degree of acri¬ mony, that the lead wound made by accident