A relation of a very sudden and extraordinary cure of a person bitten by a viper, by the means of acids. Together with some remarks upon Dr. Tuthill's vindication of his objections against the doctrines of acids ... / [Sir John Colbatch].

  • Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729.
Date:
1698
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Credit: A relation of a very sudden and extraordinary cure of a person bitten by a viper, by the means of acids. Together with some remarks upon Dr. Tuthill's vindication of his objections against the doctrines of acids ... / [Sir John Colbatch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 15) || pers fhort rage, turned into Acids of i: the moft volatile nature: this is fuch Ww) Jargon that nothing can be imagined te |] ikeic. The tranfmutation of Metals ® | (even to thofe who are the greateft we || Enemies to it ) is a mere jeft to ic. If we look into Mofes (harras his y | account of the German that was bitat . his houfe, after all the pother that he ;)| makes about his Volatile Salt of Vi- pers, yet the (ure of that man was not performed without a great deal Of hazard and trouble, and the inter- w || mixture of a great many other Medicines, «|| befides that of the Volatile Salt, and »|/thofe even Acids too, as Treacle-water, (and flices of (itrons with Sugar; but , | thefe Acids could not fo effectually ; | operate as otherwife, it’s probable, they y would have done, by reafon of their being obtunded by the Volatile Salt, (that was fo' frequently given him, | But Aloffman in his (lavis Pharmaceut. | Schroderi, pag. 45, & 46. (asI have elfe-