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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    wines* pine-apples, grapes, and other ripe fruits. In the courfe of eight-and-forty hours, the fpots were changed to a brown colour; and in a few days more, he was left in a ftate of fafety. I could not prevent his Noble Father from witnefiing, in perfon, the progrefs of a difeafe that often proves dangeroufly infectious. His Lordfhip ob- ferved, with aftonifhment and delight, the operation of this admirable medicine. He has lince repeatedly expreffed an earned: wifh to fee its powers made public, from his conviction of its being calculated to prevent, as well as extinguifh, the worft lymptoms of putrid difeafes. C- r -r**- I have often heard him mention at the fame time, how fenfibly he felt the falutary effects of the mel-rofe, faturated with the fpirit of fea-falt, applied to the tonfils by Sir William Duncan, about the year *760, when his LordiMp was feized with the ma¬ lignant o