Experiments lately made by several eminent physicians [T. Atwood, J. Mackenzie, T. Cameron and J. Wall], on the surprising and terrible effects, of almond-water and black-cherry-water. With The Cherry-planter's queries and objections, relating to those experiments. Containing the learned and facetious arguments, and demonstrations on both sides the question ... / As the same were lately published ... in the Worcester Journal ... To which are added, some letters and verses refused publication.

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1741
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Credit: Experiments lately made by several eminent physicians [T. Atwood, J. Mackenzie, T. Cameron and J. Wall], on the surprising and terrible effects, of almond-water and black-cherry-water. With The Cherry-planter's queries and objections, relating to those experiments. Containing the learned and facetious arguments, and demonstrations on both sides the question ... / As the same were lately published ... in the Worcester Journal ... To which are added, some letters and verses refused publication. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    £ it flill more worthy our Enquiry, whether 1 the G ENUIN E Black-Cherry-Water it- c felf was falutary and innocent or not;’ and then tells us the Effect of it, and fets down the Procefs. Can Words be framed ftronger toexprefs the Writer's Meaning, the GENUINE Black Cherry-Water ? Or can they be more delufively apply’d, if he had no fuch Meaning ? -Mr. Tumor (fpeaking magifterially) fays, he cares not what they do at Apothecaries-Hall, or I fup- pofe at the College, i. e. how Medicines are prepar'd at thefe Places ; but fays, it is their Bufinefs to prepare Medicines faithfully, ac¬ cording to the Difpenfatory and Phyfcians Prefcriptions : But how can one Man in this Cafe lervc two fuch contrary Matters at one and the fame time ; he mutt either adhere to the Difpenfatory and difobey the Phyfcians, or adhere to the Phyfcians and difobey the Difpenfatory 5 he cannot ferve Truth and Falfehood. The Letter-Writer, when he fpeaks of Poijons, turns them all into Arfenic, which he thinks is an Inftance fufficient for his Pur- pole ; but how many Poifons are there, that are not abfolutely fuch ? being only fo when taken to a certain Degree, or under certain Circiimftances 5 thus Elaterium, Scammony, Gamboge, and Opium, may prove highly fer- yicegble in a very fmall Dofe, where the
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