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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    ‘becaufe thefe Countries feem to be more affli&- ‘ed'than others with the Leprofy, Foulnefles of the Skin, and all Glandular Difeafes ; therefore, I judge, the celebrated Legiflator of the Fews ence from Swines Flefh. | defcribed, undergo the fame Changes as thofe that are external; therefore, they are to be re- ftrained by the fame Methods; likewife, every . State of the Tumor has its peculiar Indication ; but l think it needlefs to repeat thofe innume- rable Diftinctions that are commonly made ; for they are generally divided into various Kinds, which are trifling and obfcure ; and confequent- ly are more likely to lead the Reader into filly Difputes, than to throw any Light upon the Subject itfelf. . Therefore, as my Defign is. chiefly to explain and illuftrate the Method of Cure; I fhall only fay, that thefe Tumors are called by Paulus Egineta, indurated or harden’d Glands: And by /Etius, whitifh Flefh eafily en- creafing, contained in a Membrane, and growing hard upon tbe Surface of the Glands which arife inthe Neck, “c. and thefe Defcriptions feem to me fo accufate and perfect, that there is no need of any other. I find moft Authors greedily embracing certain hidden Caufes, from which, as from Principles, they