An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph.

  • Randolph, George, 1708-1764.
Date:
1750
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Credit: An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of the Nature, See. from Acrimony; and have fhewn that it Is the latent Caufe of Hebticks, 'Diabetes, Confumption, and feveral other different Species of Difordcrs. I have alfo taken Notice, that it is not Acrimony, as fuch, which is the Caufe of thefe Difeafes, but that Sort of Acrimony only, which tends to quicken the Circula¬ tion,' and encreafe the Secretions: And in fo doing have, I hope, fettled the true Ufe of Briftol-Water, by declaring the very fpedfick Cafe which it is good for, viz. ylcf ivionid cum feccetionibus nu£tis j or what I call in Englijh, a Heffical Acri¬ mony.- The freedom I have taken in cenfuring the Opinions of others, will not, 1 hope, be imputed to any Inclination I have to {hew my Diflikeand Difapprobation of what they have faid, but rather to the Nature of my SubjeCt, and the Enquiry which I profefs to make in my Title-Page. finis.