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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$t *4- ] Cl bile, les matieres minerales veni- il meufes, et les vins verds et aufteres, “ quoique differentes en apparence, “ produifent, malgre ce qu’ en peut “ dire M. Tronchin, des coliques a “ pen pres de meme efpece.” But to return to Dr. Huxham.—And firfl, how much foever our Cyder may agree with Rhcnifh and Mofelle wines in the circumftance of containing a large quantity of efiential fait, of a fimilar figure; no argument, from ana¬ logy, will here be valid, unlefs it can be fhewn that Rhenifh and Mofelle wines have ever produced the colic of Poitou in an unadulterated date *. \ *- . 1 • * • . . Secondly, i ^ ~ 1 ' • ~ * Ce qu* il y a de certain, c’eft que la colique, dont il eft quell ion, a ete epidemique dans les pays ou Ton boit des vins do- \$