The history of ruptures, and rupture-curers, etc ... Occasion'd by a letter from a physician at Paris, to a physician at London, concerning a new and never-failing way of curing all sorts of ruptures ... by an infallible remedy, a secret. With a genuine receipt of the whole secret ... as also of a famous stiptick ... / By R[obert] H[ouston], M.D., F.R.S.

  • Houston, Robert, -1734.
Date:
1726 [i.e. 1727]
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Credit: The history of ruptures, and rupture-curers, etc ... Occasion'd by a letter from a physician at Paris, to a physician at London, concerning a new and never-failing way of curing all sorts of ruptures ... by an infallible remedy, a secret. With a genuine receipt of the whole secret ... as also of a famous stiptick ... / By R[obert] H[ouston], M.D., F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cafes, that I prefer it before all others, and do recommend it. * v ' - - - ;V . \ . The Beneficent Boyl, tells us, That the Oil of Vitriol is one of the moft Gorrofive Men- ftruums yet known, which will fret feverai Metals, Minerals, and a great Number and Va¬ riety of Animal and Vegetable Bodies to pieces. Sir Ifaac Newton p. 3p6. 360. fays, Since Oil of Sulphur, per Campanam, is of the fame Na¬ ture with Oil of Vitriol, may it not be inferr’d, That Sulphur is alfo a Mixture of Volatile and fix’d Parts, fo ftrongly cohering by Attra¬ ction, as to afcend together by Sublimation. Le-Mort, That eight Pounds of Enghfh Vi¬ triol will yield thirty Ounces of Oil_That Oils of Salts are fluid Salts concentrated, t. e. depriv’d of moft of their Phlegm.——That this Oil is a Gauftick, and fit to diffolve Metals! ---That Oil of Sulphur may be reftified in the fame Manner as the Oil of Vitriol, and fit for the fame Ufes, and that they are both Cor- rofive and Cathareticks. •.? •• t « < : ,t >■ • o ; -■ ‘ t. Rulandi Centuria 10. p. 6co. Cur. 82. tells us, That he cur’d one Ktrfchner of a Hydro¬ cele, or Hernia Jquofa, with the Oil of Sul¬ phur, with which the whole Ramex was laid over Morning and Night, and over it apply’d a Bag with hot Alhes. ,, y ' »: '• 1 \ . .'V P. 649. Cur. 66. That he cur’d a Sarcocele* mrhia Carnofa, or Flefhy Rupture, which : ,Vi *' ** \r • . ! i 1 : v 5 ■ ]‘, ‘ * ■ -■ ftiou’d