A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

  • Spilsbury, Francis.
Date:
[1775?]
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Credit: A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lo that pinching, or puncturing the part gives little or no uncalinefs, and in fome patients the motion of the fingers and toes are quite defiroyed; the breath is very offenfive; the pulfe in general weak and flow. The dif- eafe often attacks the patient in a different manner from the above-deferibed, beginning almofi infenfibly ; a few indolent tubercles appearing on various parts of the body or limbs, generally on the legs or arms, fome- times on the face, neck, or breafl, and fome- times in the lobes of the ears, increafing by very flow degrees, without any diforder pre¬ vious, or concomitant in refpeeff of pain or iineaiinefs. Guido de Chauliac, has fummed up a de¬ scription of this difeafe in a concife manner, yet copious: The Leprofy, fays he, common¬ ly begins in the face and forehead, in which filthy tubercles make their appearance, and by degrees fpread all over the body. The eye-brows fwell; the noffrils grow wider outwardly, and firaiter inwardly; the lips are disfigured with an unlightly tumour ; the voice is hoarfe and fnufxling; the ears are turned back ; the forehead is protuberant; the face is of a purple colour; the veins un¬ der the tongue are varicous and black ; the piufcles between the fore-finger and the thumb are