A dissertation on quick-lime and lime-water ... / [Charles Alston].

  • Charles Alston
Date:
1752
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    To the Students O F materia medica. As I promifed in the Winter, Gentlemen, I noav put into your Hands, one of the Difcourfes you then heard on the Simples, confiderahly enlarged j hoping it may be of XJfe to you in your future Praliice, efpecially at Sea, 7his Dijfertation on ^ick-lime, as nxsell as that on Opi^ urn, puhlifped in the fifth Vdume of the Medical EiTays, clearly fhen.v, ho<w much our Kno'ivledge of Medicines may be impro^ven by a fenjo ^ery eafy Experiments. W'hat Dif~ coteries ha<ve been made by them on ^uick~lime, you hanje here; and ho<w much the Hifiory and EffeSis of Opium have been illufirated by them, you cannot have forgotten, Hovjr ever. It is not amifs to ohferve, that fotne Things taken notice of and clearly proved in that Dijfertation, and there firfi, fo far as I can yet find, have been remarkably confirmed by later Experiments, particularly the Adiion of Opium on the Part to vohich it is applied. Ab Opii gr. iv. Clyfmati additis, aeternum dormivilTe vifus eft reger. Vid. Gaubii lib. de form. p. 374. And Dr Whytt found, that al¬ though a Frog continued fnoving its Limbs, turning from Back to Belly, and leaping about for above an Hour after he had cut out its Heart; and vsas not quite dead aft^r tveo Hours and a half: yet having injebied a Solution ^Opiun^ into the Stomach and Guts of another Frog, five Minutes af¬ ter having taken out its Heart, in lefs than half an Hour it Seemed to be quite dead', and neither pricking, tearing, nor cut-
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