A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Ml together at firft, he might have fucceeded, and gotten the Day. In good earned, this is miferable filly do¬ ing. When an Indication is full and plain, and the time right, a Phyfician ought to flrike a manly Stroke, and give a fubftantial Dofe; then (and not eife) may he exped a good Effed from it. But he who (inftead of couragioufly meet¬ ing a Difficulty, and going according to the belt of his Judgment) is evermore dampt and frighten’d with all the bad Poffibles his Fancy can fetch in; fuch an one will find every where a Lion in his way; and were much better fit ftill at home, than venture out in¬ to the dangerous World of Pradice. But to return. Why is Syrup better than Honey for Eleduaries ? Syrup is Sugar dif- folved in Water; and if there be more Sugar in it than the loculi of that Water can re¬ ceive and hold up, ’twill (from it’s own Gra¬ vity) fink and fail out of it, and become fb- lid granulated Sugar-candy, at the Tides and bottom of the VefTel containing it. And Water being fuch a fort of Body, as is eafily rarified into minute Bubbles, and lb e- vaporated, it comes to pafs in Trad of Time (elpecially if Fermentation happen) that the watery Particles will fly off, and be propor¬ tionally diminifhed; and fb the Sugar remain¬ ing muft needs precipitate and candy; and then
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