Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M.B.

  • Jones, John, 1726?-
Date:
1797
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    f ^ ftandard in a fcale to meafure any future ab¬ errations from, upon the accefs of any future illnefs. Thus prepared, when for example* he found it neceffary upon the approach of fome diforder, to infpect the ftate of his blood, he pricked his hand as before for a drop, which he carefully compared with the note of his former ftandard, from which he formed his indication of cure. If he found that the craj]amentum exceeded in its proportion, he lived pretty much upon weak flops, tea, weak coffee, lemonade, imperial, and the like ; and, on the contrary, when he obferved an excels in the ferum, he thickened it by drinking a deco&ion of Pe¬ ruvian bark, and a glafs of Port now and then. And I make no doubt, had the vir¬ tues of Prieftley’s airs been difcovered in his time, but that Mynheer, towards the com¬ pletion of his fcheme, by a careful and ju¬ dicious obfervation of the blood’s colour i alfo, and its variation in different diforders, would have added to his Pharmacopoeia, the three articles of Azotic, Hydrogene, and Oxygene airs, to remedy all its aberrations in /