A dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink, 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 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 is annex'd, an appendix; With a Succinet Account of such remarkable Venereal and Scorbutic cases, as have been successfully treated by a Course of the Lisbon Diet-Drink. By J. Leake, Surgeon

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• John Leake (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pallmall; J. Henderson, under the Royal-Exchange; R. Griffiths, in the Strand; and Z. Steward, at the Lamb in Pater-Noster-Row, [1762] The third edition.; ..

Publication year

1762

ESTC No.

T181980

Grub Street ID

218501

Description

viii,90p. ; 8°.

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