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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    bring on the mors fernUs, when the arteries grow rigid, and lofe their elaftic power, upon which the circulation and life both depend. That in preferibing a regimen for Valetudi- narians, care fhould be taken to prohibit them the nfe of malt liquors. This, though as ridiculous, as it is at prefent a general practice, muft arife fole- ly from the ufual routine, whereby one prefcriber follows another without a well- weighed confideration, and a fufficient know- ledge of the virtues and nature in general of what they thus in the lump condemn. It is moft certainly the duty of the phyfician who prefcribes wine in preference to it, to inform his patients where this wine is to be procured genuine, or at lead to fupply them with a vial of thofe drops which difcover whether its pleafant flavour be owing to the poifonous fugar of lead added to it, or to the natural flavour of the juice of the grape. It is well known that all the white wines of Portugal have not in themfelves a body fuf- ficient, without a confiderable addition of brandy,