A course of chymistry. Containing the easiest manner of performing those operations that are in physick. With curious remarks and useful discourses upon each operation / writ in French by Nicholas Lemery ; Translated by Walter Harris.

  • Nicolas Lemery
Date:
1677
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Credit: A course of chymistry. Containing the easiest manner of performing those operations that are in physick. With curious remarks and useful discourses upon each operation / writ in French by Nicholas Lemery ; Translated by Walter Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ae ee SS ee ee eS and before ever they come to mix in the Mafs of Bloud, ‘its parts do receive fo great an alteration from the ferment of the places they muft pafs through, that they are able to do nothing elfe at moft but cool the Body: fo the fame may be faid of the Yellow Liquor of theWiper, when it is ta- fted of, that befides its mixture with the Liquors of the Mouth and Stomach, ir receives divers al- terations from the ferments of the places it muft pafs through, before it enters into the Mafs of Bloud. Many do likewife think that the venom of 73- pers hath its chief feat in the G4/, and thence 1s eafily tranfported to the Gums, when they are angry; neverthelefs in the Anatomy of this Azi- mal there’s no paflage found capable of fuch 2 tranflation, I know very well that the Pores of living Bodies may be faid to be fo open, that all through them, but no mifchievous effect is dif- covered to. proceed from the Viper's Gall when given inwardly, for it only makes one fweat. Laftly, Others will have the Viper’s Venom difperfed over al] its Body. And thofe who think thus, do-advife us to whip thefe e4nimals in a warm Bafon to drive their venom into the. extre. mities, before we cut (asis ufually done) their Heads two fingers below, and their Tasles two take out the Bowels, and then boil the Body in rect, as they fay, the remaining malignity. When the fleth is tender, itis feparated from the bones, | X 3 then