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.

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    deferted. In this calamity the overfeers of ten or twelve adjacent parities folicited from me fuch phyfical aids as I was capable of giving. From a careful perufal of Dr. Sydenham on the Small-pox, joined to the daily inftru6tions I received from a favourite pupil of the immortal Boerhaave, I pro- ceeded to take the beft care I could of my new patients. I foon difcovered in what cafes the an- tifeptic medicines, as oxymel, cream of tar- tar, lemon juice, the vitriolic and nitrous acids, with wine and opiates, were likely to be necelTary or ufeful; and under what cir- cumftances recourfe was to be had to the lancet, and the antiphlogiftic regimen. From that period to the prefent, I have been naturally curious to examine the works of fuch writers, whether ancient or modern, as might be able to furnifli rne Witb inform- B 2 ation