Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones.

Date:
1797
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Credit: Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones. 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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    as difficult to difcriminate as any of Captain Cook’s newly difcovered rocks and head- lands. Moreover, if the diftemper be a fever, how often are fevers, which in their accefs are inflamatory, found to become iii their progrefs nervous; or putrid intermit* tents to become remittent ,or continual: and vice verfa ? fo that like the man’s account of the wind at Maker s ‘Tower^ the phy- iician’s account may daily fhift and vary. And indeed, after all is over, precifely to diftinguifh between the peculiar fymptoms of the diforder, and thofe probably owing to the medicines made ufe of, is no very eafy matter; for the putrid water, for ex- * ample, and corrupted juices difcharged by ftoolin anyillnefs where fcammony has been much ufed, is by no means a proof of the previous exiftence of thofe humours; for fcammony given to the healthieft perfon will dilTolve the blood into a putrid water, and wafte the whole body by its repeated ufe ; the healthy juices being firft corrupted by the virulency of the medicine, and then difcharged. LedurC'*