The mechanical practice of physick: in which the specifick method is examin'd and exploded; and the Bellinian hypothesis of animal secretion and muscular motion, consider'd and refuted. With ...remarks ... on Dr. Lobb's Treatise of the small pox, Dr. Robinson on the animal oeconomy, and Professor Boerhaave's account of the animal spirits and muscular motion / By T. Morgan.

  • Morgan, Thomas, -1743.
Date:
1735
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Credit: The mechanical practice of physick: in which the specifick method is examin'd and exploded; and the Bellinian hypothesis of animal secretion and muscular motion, consider'd and refuted. With ...remarks ... on Dr. Lobb's Treatise of the small pox, Dr. Robinson on the animal oeconomy, and Professor Boerhaave's account of the animal spirits and muscular motion / By T. Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oafs, has a true and great Efficacy in fuch Cafes, and will fometimes perfectly cure any fuch Flux, or feminal Weaknefs and Wafte. What I here mean, is the TinCture of Can- tharides, given in a pretty ftrong DecoCtion of Guaiacum. This will fometimes prove effectual, without any farther Trouble ; but it cannot be depended on alone, where the Cafe has been of long Handing, and dif- covers any great Putrefaction and Corrup¬ tion of the Matter difcharged; but if the Dif- eafe is inveterate, Recourfe muft be had to Mercurials. Any other Method would be but palliative at beft, and only tampering with an Enemy that ought not to be tri¬ fled with. When the Ufe of Mercurials is required in this Cafe, there can be no need of the flronger Sort at all, not fo much as of the Calomel, or Mercurius dulcis, which are the mildeft Preparations of Mercury, where it is intimately mix’d and incorporated with Salt: But fuch Preparation of Mercury may give it too great a Force and Stimulus upon the Solids, in very weak and tender Con- ftitutions ; fuch are mod of our Patients under this Diforder. And therefore, to this Purpofe I prefer the Ample crude Mercury, which may be fo given and directed, as not to occaflon any Salivation, or require the lead Confinement 5 and yet when fo ma¬ naged III