Every patient his own doctor ... Containing ... receipts ... Among these are that ... new discovery, by which the scurvy ... is cured: and for the successful practice of which Captain Cook received the premium medal from the Royal Society ... Also the methods used by the Humane Society for the recovery of persons apparently drowned / [Lewis Robinson].

  • Robinson, Lewis, M.D
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[1778]
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Credit: Every patient his own doctor ... Containing ... receipts ... Among these are that ... new discovery, by which the scurvy ... is cured: and for the successful practice of which Captain Cook received the premium medal from the Royal Society ... Also the methods used by the Humane Society for the recovery of persons apparently drowned / [Lewis Robinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    < [ 6 ] at the nofe3 and fpongy gums, fubjeft to pains and bleedings. But it is to be obferved, that as con di¬ lutions differ, the figns or fymptoms of the difeafe vary, and people, according to their years, fituations in life, and manner of living, are attacked by this difeafe, under feveral appearances ; but fome of the above lymptoms always attend it according to the conftitution of thofe afflicted *5 for whofe benefit we fhali point out the mod: approved and certain me¬ thods of cure hitherto difcovered. Remedies. A Milk d iet, with weak whey, greens of all kinds, freih vegetables, fruits, acids, fcurvy-grafs ale, frefh beer and cyder, tar water taken twice a day, with eamphire, one fcruple, sethiops mineral, half an ounce, powder of gum-guaiacum, two drachms, ho¬ ney, one ounce, mix and make an eledduary, and take the bignefs of a nutmeg every night going to reft. The patient may likewife drink the decodiion of the woods. Drinking fea-water will be found extremely beneficial, as will bathing in the fea. But for the eafieft and moft efficacious remedy for this dreadful difeafe, we may thank Capt. Cook, who in his late voyage round the world, by the command of his prefent Majesty in the fhip Refolution, pre- ferved himfelf and all his men from the Scurvy, by the ufe of a very limple medicine •, though he pafte'd through the temperature, the frigid and the torrid zones, was abfent from England three years and eigh¬ teen days, and went through fuch a variety of cli¬ mates, as were fufficient to make the ftvereft attacks on the moft robuft conftitution. But as his methods of proceeding will appear with moft propriety in his own words, vve fhali prefent our readers with his Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. Prefident of the Royal Society, which letter is dated March fa 1776;