A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

  • Spilsbury, Francis.
Date:
[1775?]
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Credit: A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Heberden, in the if]and of Madeira, has font his brother. Dr. Heberden, here in London, a defcription of the Elephantiafis, as follows : Frequently the firft lymptom is a hidden eruption of tubercles or bumps of different fizes of a red colour, more or lefs intenfe (attended with great heat and itching) on the body, legs, arms, and face, fometimes in the face and neck alone, at other times occupying the limbs only ; the patient is fe« verifh, the fever ceafirig the tubercles remain indolent, and in fome degree fchirrous, of a livid or copper colour, and fometimes of the natural colour of the fkin, or at leaf! very lit¬ tle altered; and fometimes, after fome months, they ulcerate, difcharg;ino; a fcetid ichorous j } o o humour in fmall quantities, but never lauda¬ ble pus. The features of the face fwell and enlarge greatly, the part above the eye-brows feem inflated, the hair of the eye-brows falls off, as does die hair of the beard : but I have never feen any whofe hair has not remained on his head. The ales naji are fwelled and fcabrous, the noflrils patulous, and fometimes aifceled with ulcers, which corroding the car¬ tilage and feptum naji, cccafion the note to fall; the lips are tumid, the voice hoarfe, which fymptom I have obferved when no ulcers have appeared in the throat, although fome-