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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    preferred for its virtue; but that, from the fcarcity of the trees to anfwer Jthe yearly increafing great demand, and their obferva- tion that if a tree is barked it will die, they therefore fpare the body, and only bark off fome of its fmall branches. That vinegar poffejfes a coagulating power, <was the opinion of Dr. Friend. This miftake may have arifen from his fuppofing, as they are both acids, that vine- gar and the acid of vitriol are of equal vir- tue ; whereas vinegar, blood warm, mixed with frefh drawn blood before it coagulates, refolves it, and prevents its coagulation. That the diabetes is a diforder of the kid- neys. Though difcoverable by the ftate of the urine, dilTeclions prove it to be a diforder of the liver. That to hide the tafe of pills, they ought to be covered with leaf gold. ' Wafer