Encomium argenti vivi: a treatise upon the use and properties of quicksilver ... With some remarks upon the animadversions of Dr. Turner upon Belloste / By a gentleman of Trinity College, Cambridge [i.e. T. Dover].

  • Thomas Dover
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[1733]
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Credit: Encomium argenti vivi: a treatise upon the use and properties of quicksilver ... With some remarks upon the animadversions of Dr. Turner upon Belloste / By a gentleman of Trinity College, Cambridge [i.e. T. Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of ^kkjilxent Cohcfions of all the Liquors ; particularly of thofe which circulate in the fmalleft Canals, and are more vifcid and tenacious, making them more thin, or of more eafy Secretion, whereby all the Glands of the Body are fet to Work, and fcoured of their Contents: But the falival ones efpecially, being many in Number, very large and wide, and the Juice they feparate of a tough and ropy Confiftence, fo that a confiderablc Quantity of it is accumulated before it is forced out of the Orifice of the Dufls: thefe Effefts will be moft remarkable in them * and a Saliva¬ tion or Spitting mull continue fo long, till the a6live mineral Particles are through thefe and other Paflages difcharged quite out of the Body. This is a plain intelligible Account of its feveral Operations in crude Subftance, Sublimate, and Mercm us DuJcis, But as Mr. BelJoJfe in his Hofpital Surgeon^ p. 5?* very jufily obferves, If Mercury may be judged of from its Effefts, furcly crude Mercu- ry has the bell Title to be called Mercurius Dulcis * for that which is prepared with F'ire, and goes by that Name, is capable of uniting with Acids in the Body, and thereby forming an Acid : So that not to incur the Danger ot railing a painful Salivation, it mull be given but in fmall Quantities, and that fcldom: I have been a Witnefe to the terrible Confe- F quence
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