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. To which i annex'd, an appendix; With a Short State of such remarkable Venereal and Scorbutic Cases, as have been successfully treated by a Course of the Lisbon Diet-Drink. 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 (vi,90p.,plate )

Edition:

The second edition.

Other Title:

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

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. and J. Dodsley , in Pall-Mall ; J. Clarke , under the Royal-Exchange ; R. Griffiths in the Strand ; and Z. Steward, at the Lamb in Pater-Noster-Row, [1760]

Notes:

Price from imprint: Price 1s. 6d.

Reproduction of original from National Library of Medicine.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N1893.

OCLC:

642157067