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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leake, John, 1729-1792.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexually transmitted diseases--Early works to 1800.

Sexually transmitted diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],vi,67,[1]p. )

Other Title:

Dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

With a half-title.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling and Sixpence.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T129072.

OCLC:

642357723