Medical cases, and remarks ... / [Thomas Gibbons].

  • Gibbons, Thomas, active 1775-1799.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Medical cases, and remarks ... / [Thomas Gibbons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I remember to have feen a publi- cation, by a phy fician of good abilities too, but who, I have fince heard, was not upon friendly terms with the apo- thecaries, in which, with no fmall degree of warmth, he inveighs againft faline draughts, juleps, fperma ceti mixtures, ptifans, &c. &c. What good, fays he, can a faline draught do, though taken every four hours? I agree with this gentleman, that thefe are not medicines of fuch powers as to produce any great effect upon the body independent of the mind. But every practitioner of experience, well knows what an influence the mind has upon the body. Numberlefs facts might be given where impref- fions