An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters : addressed, by way of appeal, to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By C. Lucas.

  • Lucas, Charles, 1713-1771.
Date:
1757
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Credit: An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters : addressed, by way of appeal, to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By C. Lucas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ « ] the works of nature, as well as corrected the errors of fame of the mod reputable writers on the fubjed, that had gone before me. And, however ill 1 may be found to have fucceded, I hope, the open, artlefs manner, in which I treated that fubjed, will, with my charader, confpire to convince you, that Truth, and the honor of Hygeia, the one obfcured, the other fullied, by the ignorance and craft of her fpu- rious fans, were the principal objeds 1 had in view. The fame motives have now impelled me, with fome precipitation, to take up my pen in defence of the fame caufe 3 when, under the fane- tion of fome great authority among us, a mod pompous, maihve volume has been lately ob¬ truded upon the public, bearing the titule of A Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Wa¬ ters, &c. under the name of John Rutty, M. D. e- Incumbered as every art and fcrence, efpe- ciaily ours, now is, with the lumber of im- menfe volumes, by which the compiler and the bookfeiler alone can be gainers; it is mod unpardonable to burden the public further, in this way, without offering fomething ufeful or new. Of all the various branches of the healing art, none has fallen into the hands of fuch dei- picable writers, as Hydrology, that mod important part of the Materia Medica. Medi-