A dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink, a medicine. ... 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 actions on the solids and fluids To which is annex'd, an appendix, with a short state of such remarkable venereal and scorbutic cases, as have been successfully treated ... / by J. Leake.

Date:

1760