Free thoughts on quacks and their medicines, occasioned by the death of Dr. Goldsmith and Mr. Scawen; or, a candid ... inquiry into the merits and dangers imputed to advertised remedies ... To which is added some remarks on the nature, cause and remedy of the scurvy and gout. Also a plan of the dispensary for the poor, instituted in 1773 / [Francis Spilsbury].

  • Spilsbury, Francis, 1733?-1793.
Date:
1777
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Credit: Free thoughts on quacks and their medicines, occasioned by the death of Dr. Goldsmith and Mr. Scawen; or, a candid ... inquiry into the merits and dangers imputed to advertised remedies ... To which is added some remarks on the nature, cause and remedy of the scurvy and gout. Also a plan of the dispensary for the poor, instituted in 1773 / [Francis Spilsbury]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t( bowels, before they exert any fenfible effeSl; “ and then at once irritating with fo much ,f violence and obftinacy that - ■ an Hy- “ percatharfis * fometimes, all at once and “ unexpectedly, comes on, efpecially on drink- “ ing a glafs of wine, cyder or other vege- “ table acids. Befides,” continues the fame author, c< when medicines are given in fub- ‘6 fiance, they mull firft undergo a diffolu- ff tion in the ftomach, before they can pafs the laCteais, and be mixed with the blood, fo as to act as alteratives, diaphoretics, &c,” This fage obfervation of Huxkam mufi then hold good with refpett to mercurial liquid and folidpreparations, and eftablifh powerfully the fuperiority I have advanced that the one is pofieffed of over the other. Hypercatharfis^ from V7rtp fupra, prater^ and xitS&pw ^urgatioj therefore fupra modmn purgatio? that is to fay, a violent over and above purging.-—This explication of hard words we have thought neceffary, whenever there occured any in this pamphlet, to facilitate the under- ftandingof it to the ladies who may happen to read it, and hy whom indeed it is ourwifh it may be perufed, as well as by the Aldepts^ or, otherwife, thole who think and call themfelves, and generally are confidered as, com- pleatly Added in all the fecret.s of the Phyjical Art. Now,