Zymologia physica. Or a brief philosophical discourse of fermentation, from a new hypothesis of acidum and sulphur. Whereby the phoenomena of ... hot-baths ... are solv'd ... With an additional discourse of the sulphur-bath at Knarsbrough ... / [W. Simpson].

  • Simpson, W. (William), active 1665-1677
Date:
1675
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Credit: Zymologia physica. Or a brief philosophical discourse of fermentation, from a new hypothesis of acidum and sulphur. Whereby the phoenomena of ... hot-baths ... are solv'd ... With an additional discourse of the sulphur-bath at Knarsbrough ... / [W. Simpson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ooo! ine Ae 9 Difcourke of the Sulphuw-Bath, 25 og | thofle fpuriovs Fermeents, feared, yea rooted m | the babit'of the body 3° which fuch fubtiliz'd 4 Sulphurs,’as'ate in this Bath skilfully applyed .1 € with other. affifting Medicines ) are apt “4 chiefly to perform. | | Amonett which exterzal inrpurities , the ) “Lues Venerea ( being made by carnal con- | tract)’ may not improperly be reckoned 5 which confilts in a peculiar fort Cin its kind) “| of a contagious Fermental Acid, thence com- “ ‘municable to. the juzees of the body, efpecially | where the contagious Ferment, by the firft cons | tract, entered 3 which by its corrodixg acor, ‘| asa cauftick, fretting and inflaming thofe tex- SN der parts, or coagulating the juices of {ome par- N'| ticular parts ( brought thither by an afflux of M) humours ) into verereal tumours, whole reft- ™ Tels Ferments yet lodge in their Bellies, or in- 0 Wards, in both become the Authors of Notty- wal pains, politions, &c. to the: dinting of which ‘{purious Ferwental acor, ( the caulé of Mh the’ aforefard dolours ) the juft mulct of that i] Sin muft be chiefly aim’d at, in the curing f sit wil! thereof: which befides other Diaphoreticks, i!) may very well be’ perform’d by the help of | this Bath: And that too, becaufe salphurs, MY Cefpecially fuch as are prepared and volatiz'd by f “| the advirable Chymiftry of Nature in the body lor bowels of the Earth. ) do fmeetex and morti- bi fe allfuch fort of Acids : For which purpofe, : m Vhs f] qi Wh WG! i