Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke.

  • Hancocke, John, -1728
Date:
1723
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Credit: Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lQ5 The Judgment of the Great Borelli, partly difApproved, and partly approved by the Author. F&brifwgum Magnum. I will conclude this Effay with the Judgment of the Great Borelli, which may likely be of fotne Weight with the greateft Phyficians, the1 mine be of none at all. As far as I can fee, thofe that are by many accounted the beft Phyficiaris, take all that is uncommon, and new, in their Notions of Phyfick, from him and Bellini, Mai- fight, Baglivi, &c. And therefore I hope the Opinion of one of them may be more eafily received, at leaft not lightly rejected by them. The Great Borelli in his Difcourfe of Fevers, in the latter End of his Works, Page j 12. lays, The great Defign of a Phyficiao in the Cure of Fevers is, that the Obftrudions of the ex¬ cretory Veffels may be taken away, and the fermenting Balts be tgmpeFdV orilterM. He confelTes, that the Separation of the Salts from the Humours will be hard, and not to be ex¬ pected, when thofe Saks are imbibed by and incorporated with the Juices in the Glands, As the Salt in Sea-Water cannot be feparated from it, but by Diftillation. As to the tempering or altering of the Salts, he propofes two Ways. 1. By adminiftring Salts contrary to thofe that are fuppofed to be imbibed by the Glands, That Salts are contrary to, and deftruftive of the Virtue of one another, he proves by fe- veral Experiments. Aqua Fortis, compounded ©f the Acid Saks of Vitriol and Allum, will O diffolve