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
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1753
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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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    are found ia Germany, but frequently in Alia. See Fabricius ab Aqua Pend. p. 120. Ihave often had Boys brought to me, weak, pale, with long thick Hair hanging down their Necks, and covered up with the greateft Care, left the tender Creatures fhould be killed with the Cold, the whole Texture of the Body being relaxed with the Heat of their Cloathing, and with noc- turnal Sweats. Ihave fent them back to their Parents, with their Hair cut off, their Necks bare, with a florid youthful Counte- nance, having firft ftrengthen’d their Limbs by bathing in the Sea. I mention this to perfuade fond Parents not to enervate their Children, that are na- turally healthy and ftrong, by too warm ~ Cloathing in their Infancy. The Sea-Water is alfo an excellent Re- medy where the Belly is bound; for the In- teftines being evacuated by its Affiftance, and Crudities carried off, which would elfe opprefs the morbid Bowels, it gives an eafier Pafflage to the Gravel and Stones out of the Duétus biharius, [the Channel of the Gall. ] And thus I have faithfully declared, as far as I am able, what may be done, and what cannot be done by Sea-Water; but where there was the leaft Caufe to doubt, there I have been filent, or have acknow- ledged my Ignorance, without impofing Uy
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