Reflections on the nature and properties of fixible air, and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris ... To which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic / [John Melvill].

  • Melvill, John.
Date:
[1790?]
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Credit: Reflections on the nature and properties of fixible air, and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris ... To which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic / [John Melvill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■ ' [ 5§ ] But too much is not to be expe&ed from it, when thefe complaints come on with great violence, or have been of long ftanding, more powerful medicines will, in the firft inftance, become neceffary: the elementary principle, Fixible Air, valuable as it is on fuch occa- fions, mull be confidered as a preferving, re- ftoring, convalefcent remedy, rather than an adive and powerful medicine. What num¬ bers of every defcription who, like myfelf, afraid to go to bed, in dread of tedious and reftlefs nights of agonizing pain, and who ihall have the prudence to avail themfelves of the wholefome, difmterefted advice now given, will pafs the remainder of their days in eafe *nd tranquillity- f It has been obferved to me, that as Ample water feems to have been the only drink for man, in a Bate of nature, it ought, on that account, to be the only drink in a ftate of civilized Society. Thole who hold fuch an opinion, feem to forget, that a pure ftate of nature, if ever there were any fuch, muft have exifted at a time of which we have no records; for, by every account of the moft barbarous nations yet difcovered, they have afforded no Inconfiderable teftimonies of their being di¬ rected
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