A dissertation upon the sugar of milk; in which is shwwn its great efficacy in consumptions, hectic fevers, the scurvy, vapours or hysterics ... / by J. L Dyvernois.

  • Dyvernois, J. L.
Date:
1753
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Credit: A dissertation upon the sugar of milk; in which is shwwn its great efficacy in consumptions, hectic fevers, the scurvy, vapours or hysterics ... / by J. L Dyvernois. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . ( ^7 ) Iron and all other bracing Medicines did Harm to Patients, * whofe Solids w^ere too dry, too tenfe and too elaftic. Cold mineral Waters, and Baths of foft Water, do not eafe thofe of whom the Fibres are naturally of a weak and tender Contexture^ and the hot often wafte what remains of what is liquid and fubtile in the ' Blood. And farther, all thefe Waters, if you drink a certain Quantity ofthem,and they do not pafs very quickly, will fill by their Bulk, and diftend or ftretch beyond meafure the VelTels already entangled and embarrafled 5 and by reafon of their great opening Quality, will ftrike with Force againfi; the Obftacle that they will find in their Way. Every body may underftand where that will tend. You have none of thefe Inconveniences to fear from Whey or the Sugar of Milk. Who doth not fee what Effedt in thefe Cafes will be produced by a Medicine fo mild, and of which the natural and neceflary Operation, is to deobftruate without Vi¬ olence, and to relax the Parts of the Body which are too much extended ? We ought to look upon it as a great Point, in the treating of this Dillemper, to have quieted the Patient, and taken away th® firft Obftacles that oppofe themfelves to their Cure. It is then to be hoped, that in Procefs of Time, the Solids, If diey D