A dissertation on the use of sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy, jaundice, king's-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption / Translated from the Latin ... By an eminent physician.

Richard Russell

Date:: 1753

Credit: A dissertation on the use of sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy, jaundice, king's-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption / Translated from the Latin ... By an eminent physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$fipelas; and have obferved fome very trou- blefome Accidents happen from a too hafty repelling the Eruption ; I find alfo the vul- gar Opinion was received by the Antients; for Pliny fays, there are many Kinds of the St. Antbony’s Fire, and of thefe that which encompafles the Waitt, which is called Zoffer, — and kills if it goes quite round the Body like | a Girdle, Jo. 26.0%] i. Neverthelefs this Event of the Diftemper is not always true; butin curing this Species of the Evy/ipelas two Things are > chiefly to be obferv’d; one 1s, that we fhould forward the Maturation of the little Ulcers; the other, that we fhould forbear Purging ’till the Erup- tion is evacuated by the Skin, then indeed the Belly is to be loofen’d by G/auber’s Salt, or Sea-Water. But f chufe to add a Cafe of | this Diftemper. A Gentleman about Fifty was feiz’d with | a Scorbutic Eryfipelas, or rather with a kind _ of degenerate Ringworm. The Eruptions covered the Cheft and the Space under the’ right Nipple; the Heads of the Puftules were of a livid Colour; he fuffer’d great Pain, and had a flight Fever: But when the Paftules had continued about three Days, and new ones appear’d, a Surgeon thought fit to apply a Cerat to the Eruptions, which, inftead of forwarding the Maturation, only encreafed _ the Pain, and they emitted nothing but thin — Ichor, and that in {mall Quantity. At me$