Free observations on the scurvy, gout, diet, and remedy / by Francis Spilsbury, chymist, Soho-Square. London.

  • Spilsbury, Francis
Date:
1788
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Credit: Free observations on the scurvy, gout, diet, and remedy / by Francis Spilsbury, chymist, Soho-Square. London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    thefe matters, that mankind fall into repeated errors, thereby rendering their lives irkfome. For man is a machine which requires a con- fiarit fupply ; otherwife, this wonderful movement ceafes to difplay that vivacity and fuperior talents which it poffefles, and finks into an inanimated lurnp of clay. There muft be particular materials felecled, which will readilv mix, and from which his ftature is in- creafed, or his being fupported: there mufl be alfo a receptacle to depofit the matter intended for his nourifhment; that matter is to undergo various chymical operations, per- fectly agreeing in the velfel of digeftion called , the Itomach, which is the receiver and firfl; digelter of our food. It may not be improper to remark, that there are three digeltions ; the firll in the Itomach, the fecond in the blood, and ihe third in the capillary veffels: there are likewife three emunctories to anfwer them, namely, by flool, urine, and fvveat; fo that the whole aliment is evacuated or fecreted through the one or the other. It is alfo ne- ceflary to pbferve, that to diffolve the fame, there lhould be a certain degree of heat, not to exec ed in either extreme, which would a6l the fame on the human body as in diflillation; if the lire be too final], the fleam, containing the