The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover.

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1771
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t ] Palfies, &c, which they do commonly ex¬ perience, who have either been too often daubed with Mercurial Ointments* or for a long time employ’d in rubbing Quickfilver upon Looking-OlafieS 5 for the internal Ufe of it will never produce inch Mifchiefs. Much may be laid to fhew the Impoffibi- lity of Quickfilver doing any Damage to the Patient; what gives Offence to Nature, is, what we term Spiculte^ Points or Edges. Now Quickfilver always retaining a globu¬ lar Figure, together with the Softnefs of its Body, no Harm can happen from the Ufe of it 5 only this 1 would advife the Patient, that he get a fmall Crucible, put into it the Quantity of a Piftol-bullet of Qffckfilver^ fet the Crucible on the Fire, if any of the foft Metals are put £0 it, they will remain, and the Quickfilver fly off. Note> A Pound of Lead cofts Two-pence, and a Pound of Quickfilver eight or ten Shillings: The Pro¬ fit that arifes may be one Caufe of its Adul¬ teration, and another to bring the Medi¬ cine into Difrepute. But let him take particular Care not to hang his Head over it; for the Effluvia are a Poifon of the molt fubtile Nature. G 3 Now
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