Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].
- Samuel Foart Simmons
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![\ ' s \ [ 3< ] ing to chance, the queftion now ought to be, not why they were firft given, but why they ftill continue to be ad- miniftered ? That the balfam of Peru, or any other balfam, is carried unchanged into, the circulation, to exert its vulnerary effects upon the lungs, is what no perfon, who has any fmattering in phy- fie, will now be hardy enough to affert; but that thefe fubftances are antifep- tic and antiipafmodic, I believe is im- queftion able : what other properties they may poflefs, it is by no means eafy to fay. Fuller affaires us, that the bab fain of copaiva, notwithftanding its being hot and bitter, is ufeful in heflic cafes ; and that he has feen dangerous coughs, which manifeftly threatened a confumption, cured by the ufe of this l medicine alone? I am the more- dif- pofed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
