Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M.B.

  • Jones, John, 1726?-
Date:
1797
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    MEDICAL VULGAR ERRORS REFUTED. 69 for want of which bile to excite the peri- ftaltic motion thefe tumours may arife ? Bile, we are told, turns green only by an admix¬ ture of mineral acids ; but never from four milk or vegetable acids. That nurfing children on the Ireajl is much more natural and preferable to the fpoon. I grant it, provided it be on its mother’s milk, and the mother confine herfelf to a proper diet and regimen ; but fhould the mother die, or her natural affection for her babe die, by her unfortunately becoming too fine a lady to fuckle it herfelf; (to cover which to the world, the pretence that fhe is of too weakly a conftitution is generally made ufe of, though, if that fhould be the cafe, perhaps no better means could be ufed for the recovery of it ;) many confider- ations, however, induce me to prefer the \ „ fpoon, or the ingenioufly contrived inftru- ment to imitate the breaft, before the milk of the lower fort of women ; as thofe in F 3 towns,