A letter to Dr. ------- in answer to a tract in the Bibliotheque ancienne & moderne [by J. le Clerc], relating to some passages in Dr. Freind's History of physick / [John Baillie].

  • Baillie, John
Date:
1727
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Credit: A letter to Dr. ------- in answer to a tract in the Bibliotheque ancienne & moderne [by J. le Clerc], relating to some passages in Dr. Freind's History of physick / [John Baillie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 4* ] Mr. le Clerc's Plan. For almoft, in eve¬ ry place, he gives up Mr. le Clerc, and lee ms fully latisfied, if he can only cavil at the Dr. The oblervations he interpoles, up¬ on the fubjedt juft mentioned, are ve¬ ry extraordinary *; he will not allow the oil of eggs, becaule indeed a very limple procels, to be a cliymical preparation. Is it not as much one, as the liquor of flints or oil of Tartar per deliquium, or the oil of cloves and nutmegs delcribed by Le- mery ? Neither is it a diffident realon to exclude this oil from being one of the chymical procelles, becaule it had been delcribed bySerapion, who no where elfe mentions any chymical medicine. By the lame way of realoning, he may throw out even the oil of Bricks, which he himlelf allows to be a chymical pre¬ paration : for, according to his ac¬ count, the oil of Bricks is the only one WT. , - I 1 ■ ■ > ■ --— x Art. 7. p. 416. • • G which
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