The spirit of medicine. Part the first. / [Aben Zebra].

  • Aben Zebra, pseud.
Date:
[1764]
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Credit: The spirit of medicine. Part the first. / [Aben Zebra]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have been feme thing more particular on this head, as formerly the fludied in Phy- fic feemed to intimate, this to be the fource of all aiflempers, which though I fuppofe a miftake, yet were it true, it will necefiarily follow, that a Medicine may be univerfal; and if that be true, then a variety of Medi¬ cines, chymical, or galenical, barks, roots or gums ufelefs, and confequently the prac¬ tice of Phyfic extended to a very bad pur- pofe, as if from one fource all difeafes fpring, with one Medicine may all difeafes be cured; but though I conceive this hypothetically, or to be taken in a lax fenfe, yet it will not fol¬ low, that there are many fources from whence difeafe fprings, and feveral with dif¬ ferent appearances from this climatary habit called the Scurvy, which one fimple Mediae cine may radically cure. it. I think Dr, Boerhaave very truly com¬ pares the blood and ferum to the yolk and white of an egg. It feems a very plain con- elufion, that by whatever violence thefe fine fluids are accelerated, or ftagnated beyond the intention of nature, diforder will necefiarily enfue, and in either cafe very different re¬ medies feem requifite. But if this be the