The ancient physician's legacy to his country ... Or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... / [Thomas Dover].

  • Dover, Thomas, 1660-1742
Date:
1762
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country ... Or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... / [Thomas Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 20S ] In fhort, you have beftowed a great deal of Pains in your laborious Treatife, to prove what every Body will readily grant you, That Mercury can never be good in all Cafes. And to fupport your Affertion, you fay, T he prefent pradffing Phylicians in this Town, who, without all Difpute, are a Set of the moft learned and judicious Men in Rurope^ unanimoufly agreed. That Mercury hardly procures any vifible Advantage, but in Afthma’s only. I owe great Deference to the learned Faculty, but hope you don’t include yourfelf; becaufe notwithftanding your elaborate Treatife of the Ufe a?id Abuje of Mercury, you have not the leaft Preten- lions in the World to the Title. You think you make me appear ridicu¬ lous, by affirming that I recommend an Ounce of Quickfilver every Morning, for a Month together in the Stone, though F fay, at the fame Time, I have known it do Wonders. T o convince you that this Recommenda¬ tion is not founded upon Guefles, and bare Surmifes only, I ffiall produce you both the Fadts and the Names; which, as a very great