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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    [«] fame book are mentioned a c Potion of eight, another d of ten, a fomentatione of ten, a /Collation of eight, two otherss of t-vsehe, and a fourthh of thirteen ingre¬ dients. And indeed in his other works there occur feveral examples of thefe forts of compound medicines, in other forms, where the fimples, they confift of are as numerous, viz. in the treatife of in¬ ternal affeSf ions, we find four defcriptions of a Cyceon ‘ fet down, each made up of nine ingredients. A Deco&ionk offeven in 'wine. The Juice1 of the Rapum with fix more. A Lenticula m offix, a Clyfter n of (even. In his books of difeafes there is an0 Infufion of eight, and feveral Po¬ tions of eight or nine. I take notice of thefe particulars, not as they any way affedt the leafl: thing, which has been advanced in the Dr’s Hi- Jlory of Phyfick $ but only to fhew, the c 542. e 542. / 506* g 613. h 505. i 213. k 243. I 245* m 255. n 264. <1 109. more