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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    L 4* ] J renders a flight decoftion of the bark a doubtful remedy at the bed. I have often thought that this circum- dance of the difeafe going off fpontane- oufly has been the foie caufe of that re¬ putation which quack medicines have ac¬ quired. Second, Alum whey: this is a remedy which, after the ufe of fea-water, I have found to anfwer better than the bark, or any other remedy, taken in the quantity of a tea-cup full three times a clay, and continued for feme time during the dim¬ mer months j but I mud here obferve, k that when the glands of the neck are painful or inflamed, this and all other tonic remedies will tend to increafe the inflammation•> tonics are only indicated in the early dages of the difeafe, when the tumors are fmall and moveable. \ . * F