A short discourse, to prove the usefulness of vomiting in fevers, by plain reasoning, and the authority of the best physicians, ancient and modern / [Charles Oliphant].

Oliphant, Charles, -1719.

Date:: 1699

Credit: A short discourse, to prove the usefulness of vomiting in fevers, by plain reasoning, and the authority of the best physicians, ancient and modern / [Charles Oliphant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$| ( rm J inns of all Ages; fo it is at this time all Bia le over, the Praétice of fuch who underftand iw thing oftheir Bufinefs, and is daily Con- aimed (not to mention the good event of sijac-Gentleman’s Fever, which gave occafion ‘this Difcourfe ) by the recovery of thefe iif8O are fo treated. piNeither fhall the Reader take this on my € aflertion;for that itisat this time the pra- ice of the French Phyficians, who had uf- 4to-be-the greateft oppofers of Antimonial (edicines, they fhall have the word of a ve- ie WHoneft man for ir; I mean Deéfor Tournefort, ‘tote admirable Genie and Learning, pro- wed him the Profeffion of Botany in theKing’s Wisden at Paris, and madé him worthy to be gember of that Illuftrious Society, The 4 al Academy of Sciences. Heina late Book \fituled, Hiftcire des plantes qui naiffent aux en- ions de Paris. In the Preface, tpeaking of f) great ufe of Vomits, and of their way of #erating, adds, That France # Obliged to the idupgence af it's Skilful Phyficians, for is being wi, from the Plague in thefe latter Times, which WE have Difpeopled that Kingdom, if they bad |, fo their Blooding, Ptifans, and Diaphoreticks, ! mt with much ado, fayes he, it yielded to Anti- dinv, Helebor, Elaterium azd Coloquint. iii, dhall end with this,that ] am forry a great ~if#my People fhould havefo rafhly paft their wigement, in an Affair,which ic feems, they lerttood fo little, efpecially when they had : no$