A dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink, 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 claims the Preference to Both. Together with reflections on the Improper Use of mercury; and the Manner of its Action on the solids and fluids. To which is annex'd, an appendix; With a Succinet Account of such remarkable Venereal and Scorbutic cases, as have been successfully treated by a Course of the Lisbon Diet-Drink. By J. Leake, Surgeon.
- Leake, John, 1729-1792.
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- [1762]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pallmall; J. Henderson, under the Royal-Exchange; R. Griffiths, in the Strand; and Z. Steward, at the Lamb in Pater-Noster-Row, [1762]
Physical description
viii,90p. ; 80.
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Edition
The third edition.
References note
ESTC T181980
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.