Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M.B.

  • Jones, John, 1726?-
Date:
1797
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    a load of the filthieft things in nature, while chemiftry affords us medicines of fimilar but fuperior virtues in doles of a few grains only ? A few grains of fal ammoniac in fo~ iution being to the fame intentions a more efficacious and a cleanlier medicine than a quart of the infufion of ftonehorfe dung, though fufficient care had been taken that the dung was dropped in the cleaneft napkin* Of late, many wheel-barrows full of herbs, roots, barks, weeds, &c. &c. have been thrown out; yet many more are ftill retained in practice that ought to have ac¬ companied them. And it bears hard upon the fagacity of the ancients, that the boafted effects of their Conf. Fracojlorit\ and their other farrago of Phikmium Romanum in diarrheas, are now fuppofed to be chiefly owing to one of their ingredients only, the opium. In a complicated formula, fuch as that fweeping of the ffiops called Mithridate, and the like, it would puzzle a phyliciari to difcover how much each ingredient contri¬ butes to the cure, and an accomptant, how much of each there is in a given dofe. Im- b 4 provements,