A letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. concerning the virtues of the muriatic acid, or spirit of sea-salt, in the cure of putrid diseases / By Sir William Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1790
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Credit: A letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. concerning the virtues of the muriatic acid, or spirit of sea-salt, in the cure of putrid diseases / By Sir William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    «\ 1 t one, would feldom fail, under proper ma¬ nagement, to prove a powerful antidote againft the other, i , . , ■ ■> I might here mention a great variety of cafes, to illuftrate its furprifing power in correcting the mo ft putrid ftate of the juices$ but ftiall confine myfelf to a few, which X hope will be fufficient. The Rev. Mr. Stuart, fon to the Earl of Bute, was in the year 178 taken with the ufual fymptoms of a putrid fever, vio¬ lent head-ach, pain in his loins, ficknefs at his ftomach, anguifh about the praecordia, and extreme debility, with delirium. A vaft number of the true petechias, purple as vio¬ lets, perhaps not fewer than a thoufand, made their appearance at the fame time. We had immediate recourfe to the muriatic acid in great abundance; giving him like- wife camphor and Mindereri fpirit, with wines