A medical commentary on fixed air ... / [Matthew Dobson].

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1779
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / [Matthew Dobson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3> of thefe waters. Van Helmont afcribes their deobftruent qualities to the fal efurinumy and their ftrengthening powers to the vena ferri or metallic principle : (e) but no virtues are attributed to the Gas or Fixed Air, except that of being a teft, by which we difcover, when the fal efurinum and vena ferri are perfectly united; and their medicinal virtues confequently exhaufted by their aftion on each other* The reader will eafily diftinguifh, how ingenious, fanciful, and erroneous, is this account of the German Spaw waters. III. Another method of adapting Fixed Air to the purpofes of medicine, is by the addition of lemon juice to lalt of tartar, fait of wormwood, or any other fixed alkaline lalt > the mix¬ ture being inftantly drank as foon as the effervefcence commences. This re¬ medy (e) Paradoxum quintum, § i. & 7* j
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