A letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. concerning the virtues of the muriatic acid, or spirit of sea-salt, in the cure of putrid diseases / by Sir William Fordyce.

Date:
1790
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Credit: A letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. concerning the virtues of the muriatic acid, or spirit of sea-salt, in the cure of putrid diseases / by Sir William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    wines, pine-apples, grapes, and other ripe fruits. In the courfe of eight-and-forty hours, the fpots were changed to a brown colour 5 and in a few days more, he was left in a ftate of fafety. I could not prevent his Noble Father from witneffing, in perfon, the progrefs of a difeafe that often proves dangeroufly infedious. His Lord£hip ob- ferved, with aftonifhment and delight, the operation of this admirable medicine. He has fince repeatedly expreffed an earned wifh to fee its powers made public, from his convidtion of its being calculated to prevent, as well as extinguifh, the worfl lymptoms of putrid difeafes. I have often heard him mention at the fame time, how fenfibly he felt the falutary efFedls of the mel-rofe, faturated with the fpirit of fea-falt, applied to the tonfils by Sir William Duncan, about the year 1760, when his Lordihip was feized with the ma- lignant
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