Medical sketches : in two parts / by John Moore, M.D.
- Moore, John, 1729-1802.
- Date:
- 1786
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical sketches : in two parts / by John Moore, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![hellebore, by obferving its effeas on goats. By tbe ufe of this medicine, find of cold baths, we are told he cured the daughter of Foetus king of Argos: And afterwards he is faid to have cured Iphiclus, one of the heroes who attended Jafon on his argo-r nautic expedition, of impotency, by giv- ing him the ruft of iron in. wine. We are not particularly informed how he came tp the knowledge of the cold bath, or of iron; but we may naturally imagine, that he might difcover the fcrengthening eSeCt of the formeri by what is produced on himfelf and others when ufed for plea- fure: the virtues of iron he muft have found out in fome fuch accidental way as he did thofe of hellebore. A young woman, labouring under t]b,e chlorofis, or a man under a tabes of a peculiar kind, may have drank wine or fome other liquor ac- cidentally impregnated with iron, and re- ceived benefit from it; reflection and reafon- jng from analogy might induce him to 8 make](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21442198_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
