A dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink; a medicine, for many years, successfully used in Portugal, 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 justly 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 i annex'd, an appendix; With a Short State 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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- [1760]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for R. and J. Dodsley , in Pall-Mall ; J. Clarke , under the Royal-Exchange ; R. Griffiths in the Strand ; and Z. Steward, at the Lamb in Pater-Noster-Row, [1760]
Physical description
vi,90p.,plate ; 80.
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Edition
The second edition.
References note
ESTC N1893
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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.