An essay on external remedies. Wherein it is considered, whether all the curable distempers incident to human bodies, may not be cured by outward means / [Peter Kennedy].

  • Kennedy, Peter, 1685-
Date:
1715
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Credit: An essay on external remedies. Wherein it is considered, whether all the curable distempers incident to human bodies, may not be cured by outward means / [Peter Kennedy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fentioiis of any Medicine given at the Mouth. I doubt not then but that all the Sons of uEfculapms, or thofe who Study and Cure the Infirmities of Human Bodies, will accept of this final I Treatife, as de« fign’d for their further Convenience, and fntereft, as well as for the common, or igeneral Benefit of Mankind, hoping it imay be ufeful to both. As to its Ufe, it cannot but feem very plain and obvious to every Man, even of the meaneft Capacity, fince all, or mo ft, of what I have here advanced, is founded upon certain Obfervation and Experience, which can never vary, but wii! always be the fame. \ Thus the unalterable Practice of the Divine Hypo crates was founded. The ittle Theory I advance is drawn from Obvious and Undoubted Confequences, |)r plain Mechanic Principles, known dm oft to every one. ! If the Obfervations then be allow’d )f for Truth, the Ufefulnefs of it can* aot but feem very clear and appa- ent to all Men 3 fince if we can |hus effe&ually communicate Medicines >y external Means, fo as to forward or orce all the Secretions of the Body 3 or B 2 in