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. By J. Leake, Surgeon

People / Organizations

• John Leake (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for J. Clarke, under the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill; H. S. Cox, in Paternoster-Row; and R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, [1757]

Publication year

1757

ESTC No.

T129072

Grub Street ID

178556

Description

[2],vi,67,[1]p. ; 8°.

Note

With a half-title

Price from imprint: price One Shilling and Sixpence.