A treatise on the virtues and efficacy of a crust of bread, eat early in a morning fasting, to which are added some particular remarks concerning cures accomplished by the saliva, or fasting spittle, as well when externally applied, as when internally given, in the scurvy, gravel, stone, rheumatism, and divers other diseases, arising from obstructions. With some critical observations concerning the recrements of the blood; demonstrating, that when regularly secreted, they both contribute to preserve the life of animals, and keep them in health / By an eminent physician.

  • Robinson, Nicholas, 1697?-1775.
Date:
1767
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Credit: A treatise on the virtues and efficacy of a crust of bread, eat early in a morning fasting, to which are added some particular remarks concerning cures accomplished by the saliva, or fasting spittle, as well when externally applied, as when internally given, in the scurvy, gravel, stone, rheumatism, and divers other diseases, arising from obstructions. With some critical observations concerning the recrements of the blood; demonstrating, that when regularly secreted, they both contribute to preserve the life of animals, and keep them in health / By an eminent physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into the Myfleries of Nature, as to confide? for what Purpofes and Ufes in Life, they were feparated and fecreted into their proper Chan¬ nels and Receptacles•, for we daily perceive, that the Saliva, the pancreatic Juice, and the biliofe Humours, are three Liquors fecreted i 4 :■ ; , i from their refpedive Organs, that ferve great and eminent Purpofes in the Animal CEcono- my *, and'as the Saliva, or what we call the Spittle, is the laft and molt confiderable of the Secretions, fo I think it will be proper to exa¬ mine the Nature, Properties, and conflituent Principles of a Fluid that is often the Caufe of confiderable Changes and Alterations in Life. • d. . . Now the three grand Recrements of the Bo- Jr ‘ *V V dy, viz. the Saliva, Bile, and Seed, are three Principles that not only preferve Life and Health in the Individ an m j but the laft fe¬ creted Fluid is that facred Baifam that has - . . > r continued the Species from the Beginning of the World to this Time, and which will fo con¬ tinue it to the lateft Period of*Nature; and therefore methinks they deferve a more parti¬ cular Enquiry than what I perceive Phyficians, hitherto, have been pleafed to beftow upon them : However, I fhall in this little Trad only U\ I : . v -• ■ - , « 'i ■ pro-