Medical strictures, being a concise and effectual method of treating the following diseases : colds, ague, small pox, measles, hooping cough, worms, piles, uterine and nervous affections, consumption, asthma, dropsy, gravel, stone, rheumatism, gout, gonorrhea, gleet, lues venerea, scurvy, scrophula, cancer and white swelling : in which the means of prevention, palliation, and cure, are distinctly pointed out, and the whole adapted to general comprehension / by Richard Clarke.

  • Clarke, Richard
Date:
[1799]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical strictures, being a concise and effectual method of treating the following diseases : colds, ague, small pox, measles, hooping cough, worms, piles, uterine and nervous affections, consumption, asthma, dropsy, gravel, stone, rheumatism, gout, gonorrhea, gleet, lues venerea, scurvy, scrophula, cancer and white swelling : in which the means of prevention, palliation, and cure, are distinctly pointed out, and the whole adapted to general comprehension / by Richard Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    60/68 (page 50)
    [ 5° ] idium muffc be purfued.—It will preferve a good conftitution, aijd mend a bad one. On the firft appearance of this difeafe, I know nothing that will fooner check its progrefs, and even eradicate it, than fucking the juice of five or fix Seville oranges every day, for the fpace of two or three months. When the fcurvy has acquired a certain degree of malignity, occafioning ftinking breath, rotten gums, livid fpots, fcaly eruptions, and foul ulcers^ accompanied by a wafting and general debility, it is difficult of cure. Much depends on the pa- tient, as well as the medicine: they muft unite their efforts. The mode to efFedl this, is de- fcribed in the directions given with the powders. No. 28, which may be taken with the greateft fafety in every ftage of this diforder j and where medicine can pofTibly efFedt a cure, the patient may, from their ufe, indulge with confidence the hopes of attaining it. SCROPHULA,