A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

  • Spilsbury, Francis.
Date:
[1775?]
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Credit: A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of wil!ow-wood, half a pound; farfapariila root, eight ounces ; white founders wood, of the m ihic tree, each two ounces; fliaviners of ivory of hartfhorn, each fix drams ; fhav- ings of tin, and crude antimony, each four ounces, both tied in a rag; liquorice one ounce; infufe, and boil in fountain water, fixteen pints to half, then ftrain for ufe. Chaiybeates are generally directed as ufe- ful in thefe cafes, though often without fuc- cefs; for moil preparations of fieel, in which the fulphureous particles prevail, inafmuch as they ferment the blood, and put it into criti¬ cal effervefeenes, do rather increafe than di- mi riifli the impetiginous eruptions. Never- thelefs the fait, fyrup, timfture, and vitriolic infuiions, as they fix. the blood, and fomc- what check the raging falts, do well enough fuit the intentions proposed. But when none of thefe can avail, many, as the laft remedy, commend faiivationas the fiouteft cham¬ pion, and the only one that is able to cope with fo ftrong an adverfary : but the event does not always anfwer this mighty exonera¬ tion ; for I mint own to have tried this re- * Dr. Willis feemed fully fenfible of the incfficacy of fa¬ iivation, which at thofe times was the laft refort they had, and was generally put in practice, and has been often tried with as little fuccefs fince.