The modern practice of physick vindicated, from the groundless imputations of Dr. Pitt / [Joseph Browne].

  • Joseph Browne
Date:
1704
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Credit: The modern practice of physick vindicated, from the groundless imputations of Dr. Pitt / [Joseph Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    : ; * i 63 == Fhe Modern Prattice of | oBread the eating of which new, together iwith the drinking Ale and. Beer in the fame oftate;e’re the Ferment be loft, Istake to’ sthe.chief reafon of the Healthfulnefs of the wWeople of London, in refpe& to other great ‘and populour?Cities in the World; and. if -any will givechimfelf leifure to obferve, he -will find this Placefeldomer’ incident £0 any ckind of Epidemical Sicknefs, than any Vile dage in the Country, in“ comparifon to the Number of its Inhabitants. © For it is old “Beer that ftimulates the Fibres of the Guts. “and Stomach, ‘hinders and allays the genuine -ferment*of the Stomach, precipitates the D i- geition, and: frets off too’ much of the Mu- cous thatadheres to the iaward Coats of the Guts ; and from thence caufes Fluxes, Gripes, _ jand Convulfions, ‘often fatal to Children whofe Nurfes délight in fach Liquors.) Paro wo esr she aed acta hae b] Ty ca & ‘ het aa to. The third Non-2Natural, is Sleep and Wa- oking ; for we relieve the Body by Sleep, not! ‘only ‘becaufe the animal Faculty is at Reft, ‘but becaufe the Heat drawing back and re- tiring tothe internal parts, better digefts, -attenuates, refolves and difperfes the fubtle Fluid through the Skin, Unde vifcerum depu= ratio & alacritas emergit: In the time of ‘waking the Spirits tran{mitted to the cir- cumference of the Body, ‘powerfully diffipat the excrementitious Humours from the ex- fernal parts, from whence comes. that wn: ; 4 ES ; 3 ary # 4 bf t - = . ° a = Ae ~