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.

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 (xxix,[3],78[i.e.79],[1]p. )

Edition:

A new edition.

Other Title:

Introduction to a dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink,

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

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.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T166896.

OCLC:

642477283