A letter to the learned Dr. Woodward / By Dr. [J.] Byfielde [i.e. J. Freind?].

  • Freind, John, 1675-1728
Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter to the learned Dr. Woodward / By Dr. [J.] Byfielde [i.e. J. Freind?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pn ordinary Bone-fetter may be a pro¬ per Subftitute. For even in the Cafe of a Gangrene, one of rhe moft cruel and terrible Refults of the Eiiiofe Salts, Nature, with the Affiftance of p Vomits and AJtringents * makes a Ejpecuiiiy Scuffle to the refcue of the Patient, grene. apd the laving of the Frame, without any external or manual Application. I have hitherto illuftrated fome Parts of your Book for the life of the Curi¬ ous, and now, for the lake of thole, who have not Leifure or Inclination . * . , <* . ■ * to perufe fo elaborate a Work, I lhall give an Abridgment, or, to fpeak in my way, extradl the Gfaintejfence of the whole, and lay it before them in your own exquifite Words, which can¬ not but give them a jult Idea of the Bilioje Syjlem. \ * C t f' f* ■- ■*' $ /''l \ 3* The biliofe Juice or Brinciple, whofe Source, Fountain, R.efidence,Ca¬ pitol, is in the Stomach, contain* Salts, Sdcch ar ine, Mur iat ic, Ammoniac,Bit- 3* ii. ter, Acid. Thefe Salts rightly conjtitu- ted