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.
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[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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    [■« ] . are eaten away ; the hair falls off from the head and eye-brows $ afterwards the ft in of the whole body becomes black and full of foots, rough and unequal, with crufty fcabs full of knobs; and fiffures of horrible afpecff, which makes it appear like the fkin of an elephant. After this the fingers and toes be¬ gin to fwel!, and then the legs, which being covered with rugged inequalities feem like two facks for magnitude : befides all this the patient is infatiable with regard to venereal pleafures: the blood is fetid, fpotted, and black, and will not coagulate. Hoffman, (a phyfician to two kings of Prnffia) a man of great judgment, thought that the feat of this difeafe was in the fkin, but chiefly in the fatty membrane, where the fumes of the impure and corrupt matter chief¬ ly refides; infomuch that by corroding, prick¬ ing, and inflaming, the nervous fibrillae of the fkin various kind of puftules are generated; nay, he thought that the fat was not only the proper recepticle for the feeds of this difeafe, but of the meafles, frnall-pox, miliary puf¬ tules, and the lues venerea, where they may lurk till feme bad conflitution of the stir gives them fufficient vigour to exert their perni¬ cious qualities. All the antient phyfician? thought it had its rife from errors in diet, and forne