A dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink, a medicine. ... successfully used in Portugal, in the cure of the venereal disease and scurvy: in which, its comparative excellence with mercury and guaiacum is considered, and the particular cases are pointed out, where it justly claims the preference to both : Together with reflections on the improper use of mercury, and the manner of its actions on the solids and fluids To which is annex'd, an appendix, with a short state of such remarkable venereal and scorbutic cases, as have been successfully treated ... / by J. Leake.

  • John Leake
Date:
1760
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Credit: A dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink, a medicine. ... successfully used in Portugal, in the cure of the venereal disease and scurvy: in which, its comparative excellence with mercury and guaiacum is considered, and the particular cases are pointed out, where it justly claims the preference to both : Together with reflections on the improper use of mercury, and the manner of its actions on the solids and fluids To which is annex'd, an appendix, with a short state of such remarkable venereal and scorbutic cases, as have been successfully treated ... / by J. Leake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    another, but is the immediate Refult of my own Obfervation and Knowledge of its Effi¬ cacy > in the perfett Cure of the confirm'd Lues Venerea and Scurvy * having feeny when at Lifbon, repeated In/lances of its furprizing Succefs in thefe Difeafes, even when Salivation, and all other Methods, had been fubmitted to in vain, and the defpair- ing Patient was left to himfelf as incurable. \This Medicine y at Lifbon, was univer- fully known by the Name of the German- Diet-Drink^ from its being given there’,for many Tears, by a German, whoy as I was inform'd, had been Phyfician to the Queen Dowager of Portugal: Its Succefs was fo amazing in many Cafes that were thought to be incurable, that feveral Gentle¬ men reforted thither from England, Italy, Holland and other Parts of Europe, in Hopes of Relief * fo thaty of late Tears, Montpelier has not been more famous than Lifbon, for the Means of repairing thofie Confiitutions which hadfufieredfrom Vene¬ real Complaints, or the improper TJfe of Mercury. i I have for a confiderable Time, given the same Medicine, and hitherto with good Succefs: