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

  • Russell, Richard, 1687-1759
Date:
1753
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Credit: A dissertation on the use of sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy, jaudice, king's-evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption / Translated from the Latin ... by an eminent physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wo. A TRWATISE, Oe: compared with the fingular Ufe which you have found of this Medicine: from yourown Experience, or what are thofe Teftimonies of the Dead, if com- pared with the Examples of Thoufands now living who daily drink Sea-Water, who, if they had not found .it very beneficial would certainly have neglected it long ago ? I fend you alfo an Account of a Cure TET per- formed. You will find there that the Patient was it every Morning in a continued Courfe till fhe had taken twenty five Gallons, a great Quantity indeed, and by this Means the fcrophulous Diforder with which fhe was troubled by Degrees difappear- ed, and ‘her Health was in p “Beelpedt better eftablifhed than ever. And thefe dice; may fuffice to remove all Prejudices, at leaft of thofe who will hear Reafon; for it ought to be inquired into whether a Medcine much the Bufinefs of a Phyfician to fpend his Time in Difcovering the Sources, and obfcureand remote Caufes of Difeafes, as to embrace whatever may conduce towards their Curc ; and to think, that T Thefe Conjectures about the latent Caufes of Things are of no Confequence, becaufe it does not fignify what eccaftons a Difeafe, but what will cure it. . 1 am, Sir, &c. 1 Celf. Pref. Lib. I E 4d S Ak