The antient physician's legacy impartially survey'd. : With a discourse on quicksilver, as now commonly taken.

  • Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741.
Date:
1734
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Credit: The antient physician's legacy impartially survey'd. : With a discourse on quicksilver, as now commonly taken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with a Miracle wrought upon a gouty Patient, at leaft fo pretended, by the Doctor's Diaphore- tick, pe 8, 9. Elix. Vitrioli, bis favourite Medicine, allow'd to be a very good one in fome States of the Solids as well as Fluids [in which la ft he places the Seat of all Dif- eafes] but given by him in too large Proportion for many Stomachs to bear it \ and inftancing certain States and Conditions where the fame may be hurt- fuly p. 9 to I I . The Dropfy differenc'd by an Afcites, Tympa¬ nites and Anafarca, although no Difference made by him in the Cure \ all being alike remov'd by purging, according to our Phyfician, who is an Enemy to the Paracentefis, p. 11 to 13. His Hydragogue, and his Account of two Perfons cur'd by it 5 together, with that of another Gen¬ tleman's 5 of two more that were kill'd thereby, or, who died under the Operation thereof p. 13 to 15, The Cafe of an old Lady, recommended to a certain Dropfy Doff or, with her Sentiments upon the fame , together with the Form of a Purge order'd by one of thefe People, p. 15 to 17. The Diabates very injudicioufy defcrib'd by this Gen¬ tleman, and the Difference in IVeight as well as Colour, between the Urine of thofe labouring under this Difeafe, and that of Hyfterical or Hypo¬ chondriacal People; with the Do&or’j Cure thereof, p. 18, 39. Of a Confumption, in which fome grofs Miftakes both in Theory and Pra&ice, p. 20 to 25. Of an Afthma ; no Notice taken of Quickfilver, however fince extoll'd for this Diftemper, p. 26. The Jaundice erroneoujly diftinguifh'd, and whilft the Cure, by proper Deobftruents^ is fet at nought.