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 the great 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 ... observations concerning the recrements of the blood ... / By a physician [i.e. Nicholas Robinson].

  • Robinson, Nicholas, 1697?-1775
Date:
1756
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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 the great 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 ... observations concerning the recrements of the blood ... / By a physician [i.e. Nicholas Robinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bile, pancreatic Juice, and divers other Fiuids fecreted from the arterial Blood : And as thefe fecreted Fluids are the main Principles that fupport the Life of Ani¬ mals ; fo in the moft noxious, venomous, and poifonous Creatures, where the great Mifchief is done by a Bite, and the Infu- fion of a poifonous Fluid into the Wound, as is done by the Viper 5 then, upon Re- fledtion, we difcover that there mu ft necef- farily be a counter Poifon, generated and fe¬ creted fomewhere in the Body itfelf, to preferve this noxious Animal from the Force and deadly Effedts of its own Poi¬ fon. - But of all the various Separations and Secretions, I know none of fo much Con- fequence to the Body, as that fecreted Li¬ quor, we call the Saliva, or what is ge¬ nerally meant by the Falling Spittle, as will more clearly appear, when we come to B 2 fpeak