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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    I am yery fenfible that in advancing this theory I fhall difoblige many of the in¬ habitants of Scarborough, Margate, South¬ ampton, and other places, but in an effay of this kind it is neceffary I fhould be candid. They may perhaps conclude, that for fome interefted motives I write againft falt-water ; I muft therefore de¬ clare that my objedt is truth, not intereft. I muft now conclude this effay with re^ commending fea-water, and more efpeci- ally thofe faline waters impregnated with fulphur, in themoft djftrefting and cruel of all difeafes, the SCROPHULA: or, KING’S EVIL. This difeafe, though it differs from the fcurvy, yet has often been confounded with it, and therefore I ft]all give a fhort hiftory of it, with the lymptoms. By fome authors it has been confidered as a new diforder, introduced with the venereal difeafe ; but I think the ftrumae men-