Observations on the nature and properties of fixible air, and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris, in preserving health, and preventing diseases : To which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic, pointing out the causes which greatly obstruct the improvement of the healing art ... / By John Melvill.

Melvill, John, M.D.

Date:: [1789?]

Credit: Observations on the nature and properties of fixible air, and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris, in preserving health, and preventing diseases : To which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic, pointing out the causes which greatly obstruct the improvement of the healing art ... / By John Melvill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ 2° ] ing creature. From thefe pofitions I was led to draw this fair and obvious conclulion, that a judicious combination of thefe two perfect dements, with a due proportion of wine or fpirity to cowed its coldnefs on the flomach, would confitute the mofl congenial and falu- tary necefj'ary of life, calculated to preferve the human body in health, and when wea¬ kened with fcknefs, to reflore it to vigour; perfectly perfuaded of the truth of this deduc¬ tion, my former courfe of medicines were again without lofs of time refumed. In the fpace of about three weeks,-my pains were greatly abated, my arm became almoft ftraight, and my gravel entirely difappeared. In the month of January, 1783, I commenced the ufe of the Aqua Salubris combined with wine, or fpirits, in the proportions hereafter men¬ tioned, as my common drink, and with a degree of fuccefs which anfwered my warmeft expectations. In the courfe of three months ufe of the Aqua Salubris, as a neceffary of life, which I found more-agreeable to the tafte than any other kind of liquor whatfoever, my pains were entirely removed, and my-arm became quite ftraight, .and as ftrong as ever. From that period to the prefent day, I have not

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