An account of Dr. Quincy's Examination of Dr. Woodward's state of physick and diseases. In a letter to the Freethinker.

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1719
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Credit: An account of Dr. Quincy's Examination of Dr. Woodward's state of physick and diseases. In a letter to the Freethinker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ij ] . in being Subftances: and Mr. Lock* fays, that the Nature of Body is not fo well known, nor alfo the Eflence of Thought, but that, for ought we can tell, a certain Syflem of Matter may by God be endu’d with the Fa¬ culty of thinking. Yet he no where pretends this to be aftually fo. Thus, in another place our Man of Mecha- nifm and Chymiftry fays, that how a red colour Jhould refult Page ?s: front a mixture of Salts, that were none of them of that colour in a State of Separation, is hard to conceive .* as if the mixture of two or more Bodies of different Colours (be they Salts or what you pleafe) nay of two things of the fame colour, could not pro¬ duce another colour perfectly diffe¬ rent, of which every Dyer’s Boy might certify him. Had he never the cu- riofity himfelf to make Sympathetick Ink, by mixing the infulion of Sac- char um Saturni with that of Lime and Orpiment, none of which are black in a State of Separation, but clear as may be? Or does he not know, that common Ink is made of the in- fufion of Galls and Copperas ? But why fhould I any longer fpend yours or