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A treatise of the safe, internal use of cantharides in ... physick ... / translated ... by J. Marten. To which are added ... observations ... of the ... doctor [J. Groenevelt] also the translator and others concerning the ... vertues of cantharides internally administered ... As also an anatomical and chymical account of that insect ... Likewise a letter to the doctor of the effects of cantharides in the gout.

  • Jan Groeneveldt
Date:
1706
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Credit: A treatise of the safe, internal use of cantharides in ... physick ... / translated ... by J. Marten. To which are added ... observations ... of the ... doctor [J. Groenevelt] also the translator and others concerning the ... vertues of cantharides internally administered ... As also an anatomical and chymical account of that insect ... Likewise a letter to the doctor of the effects of cantharides in the gout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RS So fimall a Seed could never grow to fo great a Tree, or the nutritious Juice be carried i. but by the .Volati] Spirit, which the Chymifts expel by Fire as im pure, forthe fake of fomething elle, | either the Volatil Salt, or the Oil: APlant hath but little volatilSale, ~ ahd yet hath fome, for there’s no” good fappy Plant,but that fome of . this Salt may be foud in it; which thusappears, inafmuch, that moft aromatick and fcorbutick Plants, grow In watry or tmarthy Places, | Minerals in their terrene Spe- cies, as alfo Metals (or Minerals refined) do not contain fo much Wolatil, as fixed Salt and acid Spirit, (by means of which the Metals are diflolved) which yet are not attainable but by great labour at the Fire, and “at lag very difficultly afcend. But if a- ny one will pretend to illuftrate the diverfity of motion in their ie | H ma-