Introduction to a dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink, and its extract, in the cure of veneral disease and scurvy; Rheumatic Gout, the Scrophula, Consumption, and other Disorders proceeding from an impure State of the Blood; especially those of the Skin and Glands. to which are added sixty-three select cases, Confirming its Success and restorative Power in Consumptive Habits, and broken Constitutions. - The Extract may be taken unimpaired in its Virtues, in any Climate; and, as a mild Stomachic Alterative, has been found highly beneficial in sweetening the Blood, and repairing the Constitution. Also preparatory to Sea Bathing; and as a gentle Laxative, during the Use of Bath, Tunbridge, or Spa Waters which render the Habit costive. By John Leake, M.D. Of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and Physician to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital, at his House in Parliament-Street

People / Organizations

• John Leake (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for R. Baldwin, Paternoster-Row; and may be had of the several booksellers, [1791] A new edition.; ..

Publication year

1791

ESTC No.

T166896

Grub Street ID

205042

Description

xxix,[3],78[i.e.79],[1]p. ; 8°.

Note

A revised version of the preface and cases (but not the text) from Leake's 'Dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink'

The last of the sixty-three cases is dated 1791

Price from imprint: Price Two Shillings.

Uncontrolled note

O reports verso of p. 77 blank; "78" on recto, "79" blank