Volume 1

An essay concerning the cause of the endemial colic of Devonshire, which was read in the Theatre of the College of Physicians, in London, on the twenty-ninth day of June, 1767, / by George Baker.

Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet

Date:: 1767

Credit: An essay concerning the cause of the endemial colic of Devonshire, which was read in the Theatre of the College of Physicians, in London, on the twenty-ninth day of June, 1767, / by George Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$iC cc [ 9 ] France, and to the Cardinal Due de ' \ Richelieu, under the title of novus popular is apud PiSlones dolor colicus bi- liofus. Indeed it feems to be acknow¬ ledged by Dr. Huxham, that what is called Colic a PiElonum, “ which kind of difeafe,” fays he, u is very com¬ mon in the Weft-Indies,” is ftmilar to the difeafe which he deferibes; u ariftng from a ftmilar caufe, to wit, too * great an ufe of the very acid juice of lemons, and requiring much “ the fame method of cure.” Dr. Huxham refers the caufe of the Devon fhire colic principally to a very grofs, eflential, acid fait, or tartar, with which the exprefled juice of ap- C pies, * I am credibly informed, that, at this time, both in the Weft Indies, and in the northern colonies of America, the juice of lemons and limes is not only much trufted to as th,e cure of this difeafe, but that it is even efteemed to h.z a, prefervative from it, <c u$