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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    % either your own health, or that of your family, has been concerned; and particu¬ larly in your laft malignant fever, firft encouraged me to publifh my New Enquiry into the Caufes, Symptom!, and Cure of Putrid and Inflammatory Fevers; wherein I endeavoured to lay down fuch rules for diftinguifhing the one fpecies from the other, as to determine with clearnefs the mode of treatment, whether by the antifep- tic, or the antiphlogiftic plan. In purfuing the fame track, from which I have never feen reafon to deviate, but on the contrary more and more reafon to per- fevere in it, I was led to examine with clofer attention the powers of the Muri¬ atic Acid, or Spirit of Sea-falt, in putrid difeafes, and efpecially in thofe that ap¬ proach neareft to the Plague: I mean the petechial, camp, and jail diftempers, as well r