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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    deed, the intentions of cure may be more certainly gathered, when this matter is the balls or root, as I may fay of the former, viz. taking the primary therapeutic indica¬ tions from thence, and to inlift chiefly upon antifcorbutic medicines ; but even of this fort, thofe that are fharp and hot, as fcurvy-grafs, water-creffes,horfe-reddifh,pepper-wort, and other things that incite the blood too much, as they diflolve the cralis of it more, and force the coagulating tartar to the fkin in a greater quantity, are always found to do more harm than 2'ood. O Baths, or bathing in hot water, which eva¬ cuate by abundance of fweat the humours of the whole body, and cleanfe the pores of the fkin, though they feem very proper for this diforder, yet they are fo far from relieving, that the breakings out are very often increaf* cd and exafperated thereby: that* to his knowledge, many have made the experi¬ ment, and have returned quite leprous *; C 3 where- * Thefe two remarks of Dr. Willis, concerning Scurvy- prafs and the Hot Baths, are very juft and pertinent; — for <) Scurvy:grafs and water-creifes being commended for the fea fcurvy, has induced perfons on land to eat them with great avidity. Now where there is a heat or an irritation in the blood, it is only increafed by thefe methods; likewife other hot drugs have been frequently made ufe of, fuch as Guaicum, Camphire, See. to determine or drive the humours out on the ikinj