Volume 1

A treatise on mercury, shewing the danger of taking it crude for all manner of disorders ... / [Anon.] ; with some remarks on the Antient physician's legacy [of Thomas Dover].

  • Bradley, Henry (Surgeon)
Date:
1733
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Credit: A treatise on mercury, shewing the danger of taking it crude for all manner of disorders ... / [Anon.] ; with some remarks on the Antient physician's legacy [of Thomas Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lefs Procefles, and all Chymills know. JLewenhock, and others, who would ra¬ ther truft to the Information of their Sen- 1 fes, have found by Infpe&ion With their Microfcopes, that though Mercury be tortured ever fo much by Fire, or the Corrofivenefs of Salts, its Particles al¬ ways retain a fpherical Figure. But Cheyne in his Effay on Fevers thinks, that Mercury may come to change its Sphericity, from the following Reafon, that whenever the Gravity of mercurial Particles is equal to the Medium they are fuipended in, they will receive the Fi* gure the Motion of the Medium can im¬ print on diem. That Mercury may be brought to this State, he proves, becaufe by pounding Mercury in common Water its Weight diminifhes, and the Water is tinged. ’Tis <Boerbatve>s Opinion, that Mer¬ cury is compofed of fmail Globules divi¬ sible ad infinitum, in which the chimeri¬ cal Principles of & Oleum, are fo interwoven, that by no Art they can be feparated from each other.' C Thfc