A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints, scurvy, leprosy, & scrofula : also on a certain disease, seminal weakness ... to which is added an address ... on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818.
Date:
[1804?]
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Credit: A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints, scurvy, leprosy, & scrofula : also on a certain disease, seminal weakness ... to which is added an address ... on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    means communicated it to the English ; but in fact the Spaniards were the first propagators of it in Europe. This disorder is universal amongst the inhabitants of Mexico and Peru, and is not attended with such dreadful symptoms in that warm climate, as is expe- rienced amongst us in this cold region. The natives of that country from whence it origi- nates, experience so little inconveniency from this disorder, that they give themselves little concern about it, having a plant which is found to be a specific for the cure of it. The celebrated Dr. Boer- haave. professor of physic at Leyden, procured from a Spanish nobleman, who resided several years as go- vernor at Mexico, some of the plants, which he prot pagated in the physic-garden belonging to the uni- versity, and which he made use of for the cure of this disorder, it is said, with success ; and if that be the case, it is extraordinary it has not been intro- duced into the physic-garden at Chelsea. The same nobleman informed the professor, that a tradition prevails amongst the inhabitants of America, that the disorder first originated from the venemous bite of a serpent, the malignant effects of which has spread for centuries past through the greatest part of the inha- bitants. This pernicious malady was not known through the'extensive country of Russia, till Peter the Great, as he was styled, came over into this country, where he continued some time, to inform h'.mSelf oF the English manner of building ships, and upon his return found that his attendants had introduced into his country a new disease, which till then they were c 2