Thoughts on Brightelmston. Concerning sea-bathing, and drinking sea-water. With some directions for their use / [John Awsiter].

  • Awsiter, John, 1734-
Date:
1768
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Thoughts on Brightelmston. Concerning sea-bathing, and drinking sea-water. With some directions for their use / [John Awsiter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    13/20 (page 13)
    C ‘3 ] ing therefore, with lea water, the opiate at night, and the regimen prefcribed, are only cautionary aids, co-operating with the topical application. Obfervation x ft. If fait, diflolved in urine, can deftroy the bite of a mad dog, may it not, ap¬ plied in the fame manner, deftroy the vi¬ rus of other animal poifons ? • 2dly, May it not, on the fame principle, weaken or de¬ ftroy the power of vegetable poifons, when local ? 3dly, If it is found to deftroy the force of animal and ve¬ getable poifons, feperately, will it not a£t on thofe poifons when combined ?- . Thus may it not abate the danger of a wound given by a poifoned weapon, as the compofition with which thefe inftru- ments are poifoned, is thought to be a mixture of the vegetable and animal. From Monkfhood, and the poifonous fluids of animals, of the Serpent, &c. Where the cure has been neglected, and there appear fymptoms of the Hydrophobia I fay nothing in preference of this remedy, before that of Dr. Mead’s, by Ground Liverword and Pepper ; Or the Tonquin receipt, by Cinnabar and Mu Ik ; Or Dr. James’s, by Mercury ; Or Dr. Nugent’s, by Opium. What we infer, by giving this cure a place here, is to illuftrate the power of fait (the active principle of fea-waterj in deftroying the acrimony and poifonous quality of fores, and wounds, and as fuch difpoling them to heal. C2 Hence,