The family physician: or Advice with respect to health. Including directions for the prevention and cure of acute diseases / Ex-tracted from Dr. Tissot. [by J. Wesley].

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Date:
1797
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Credit: The family physician: or Advice with respect to health. Including directions for the prevention and cure of acute diseases / Ex-tracted from Dr. Tissot. [by J. Wesley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it be thought that fo great a man as Dr. Tiffed never taw the taranfaftipris of our Royal Society ? But if he has feen them, how could he utterly forget the paper communicated by Dr. Mead, which puts it beyond all polhble difputc. bciug a matter of occul.ar demonftration, that the itch is nothing but animal- cules of a peculiar kind, burrowing under the fcarf- ikin ? Yet if he had not utterly forgot this, how came he to preferibe internal medicines for it ? Docs any man prefect be vomits or purges, to kill fleas or lice ? v 7. May.I be permitted to touch upon one point more, to which I cannot fully lubferibe ? 1 am fen- fible it may be elfeemed huge want of fenfc, if not of modelly likewife, to contradift the fkilful, in their own art ; yea, fome of the greatefl names in iturope. But I cannot help it : when either the louls or lives, of men are at flake, 1 dare not accept any man’s perfon. What I refer to, is his vehement recommer.fhrion of the Peruvian bark, as, 11 the only infallible remedy either for mortifications or intermitting fevers.” fie really feerns tranfported with the theme, as do many Phyficiaps befide. I ob- ject to this, 1. It is not “ an infallible remedy,” either for one or the other : no, not even when ad- miniftered'by a very fkilful Phyfician, after evacu- ations of every kind. I have known pounds of it given, to flop a mortification : yet the mortification fpicad, till it killed the patient. 1 myfelf took fome pounds of it when I was young for a common tertian ague. And that after vomiting. Yet it did not, would not efFcdl a cure. And I Ihould probably have died of it, had I not been cured unawares by drinking largely of lemonade. I will be bold to fay, from my perfonal knowledge, there are other reme- dies, which more feldom fail. I believe, the bark -has cured fix agues in ten ; I know, Cobweb pills have cured nine in ten. The bark has often flopped a mortification : and fometimes it has failed. But I could never learn that Dr. Piper’s method [of EiTex] has failed in a fingle inltance : though one of his patients was of a grofs habit, and above fixty yeais old, and another, above ninety. Let them philolo- • - A phizc