Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke.

  • Hancocke, John, -1728
Date:
1723
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Credit: Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Magnum. Bed, open tHe Glands of the Sllin, and pro¬ duce a plentiful Sweat (whicli it cannot do, but it mull imbibe fome or all of (hofe noxi¬ ous Salts, that ftagnate in thlS Glands) ’tis highly probable, it will, with it felf, and o- ther Humours, carry off thofe Salts out of the Body, and fo cure the Fever. And fo the Separation and Expulfion of the Salts in the Humours, ftagnating in the Glands (which Bore lit fays is not to be hoped for) will be effe£ted. And both Bore HP s Intenti¬ ons will be anfwer’d. To conclude, There is fomething of Fafiii- on in Phyfick, as in other Things. I my felf can remember the Time when many Phyfi- cians would hardly allow their Patients a Small-Beer (much lefs Water) to cool rnefr Tongues in a Fever. (They might as well have forbid ’em to throw Water on their Houfes when on Fire.) But now, as to that, the Cafe is alter’d, and 1 am glad to find fo great a Man, as Sir Kichard Blackmore, de¬ clare fo freely as he does, in his late Book of the Plague, for the plentiful Ufe of innocent Liquids in Fevers. I confefs, it is a little cut of my Way to write in Phyfick ; but I am not the firft Man that has writ a Book of a Subject he knows little of. And if any of the Profeffion, that cenfure me for this, will write a good Book m Divinity or Adoiality (as fome ot ’em have lately done very good ones) I fhall not think they iTugum I