The antient physician's legacy impartially survey'd. : With a discourse on quicksilver, as now commonly taken.

  • Daniel Turner
Date:
1734
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Credit: The antient physician's legacy impartially survey'd. : With a discourse on quicksilver, as now commonly taken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other than a Dropfy of the Legs and Thighs; and I think there are not many Inftances to be given of the Dropfy, if we except the true Afcttes and Tympanites, where thele precede not that of the Belly. I will now come to his Cure, fuch as none furely, unlels a Farrier, would have preferibed; his Converfation you know has been much with Tars, and he thinks the moft tender Conftitutions of our Citizens, will bear the fame rough handling. But is it not ftrange, a Man who nmft needs by his Conversion among thefe Crea¬ tures, have feen many Inftances of a true Scurvy, Ihould know fo little of its El- fence, as to deny that it is other than a mere Name, under which Phyficians take San&uary to conceal their Ignorance of fome Difeafes; for when, faith he, />. 31. (be¬ ing minded to play upon the Word) they meet with a Difiemper they know little of they call it a fcurvy one\ but I will here enter his Purge. Take an Ounce of Steel with as much crude Antimony, and a quarter of a Pound of Diagre- dium, and make it into an Ele Pitt ary, with what Syrup you pleafe. And here, as I told you of his Sudorific, I may defy you to match this alio, or give one Example of fuch a Purgative, doled out by Spoonfuls. Yet, as an Encourage¬ ment, he tells you of two Miracles wrought by