Volume 1

A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe].

  • William Wagstaffe
Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [i43 ]' thing but a Vomit can be Serviceable. Nay in tlie Cafe of a Fracture, or a DijlocaSon, I have Known' it necelfary, and you certainly proceeded upon folid Reafons when you put Sir H. E’s Seri into a Conrfe of Oyls and Vomits fbr a fpraind Thumb. In Sir R. ,St-le's Daughter the Emetic might operate perhaps too briskly, and cau e the rhigh Lone to break again : However you was fo well fttisiy’d of the good effeS, that you continu d her Mother in the fame Courl'e even to the Day fie dy’d. J ’ . Ecu Emetic* certainly is a Remedy fo preven¬ tive of all evil Confequences, that may happen to us, that I lee no Reafon why it may not be ta¬ ken before we undertake a Journey, or a Vox- ^,;for;Fear of a Fall from One’s Horfe, or of being Drown d, or any other Accident or Difafter. r ?rti t10 . n ® . °f Elder is accounted in- rallible agamft Galling, or, according to the com¬ mon Phrale, againft lojivg Leather when we ^1C 11 ■T6*' a ^ °mit carryTd in One's Pocket would be a more proper Antidote and JEquipol- lent to the Reafon and Intention of the Thing. ; n he remembred that, in all Cafes it is necellary, not only to evacuate the Salts f7° 1 temper their Acrimony by the Ufe ,°j %.th* Alterant. This Benign and Amicable Medicine is applicable, as you incul- cate, at all times, in any Age, Perfon, or Confti- tntion. If any one is too Cofiive it. will Lu¬ bricate =, If Laxative, it will bind him ; If he has a SuppreJ/ion of Urine, it will take it off- If a Diabetes, it will flop it, If his Perforation is profufe, it will hinder it, if not at all, promote rv*\7 “,rd Witty, it will make him Doltifi -, if Corpulent and Dull, it will- render him Snrjvhtlv /n«/7 7/w„._ t_ n . • him Sprightly and Vivacious. In fhort, it V • neithe