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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leake, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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, [1760]
Edition:The second edition
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Item Description:English Short Title Catalog, N1893. - Price from imprint: Price 1s. 6d. - Reproduction of original from National Library of Medicine
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (vi,90p.,plate) 8°