Medical remarks on natural, spontaneous and artificial evacuation ... / [John Anderson].

  • Anderson, John, approximately 1730-1804
Date:
1788
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    fuppofe that the great and permanent cure is to be efFefted by a mere local ftimulus, yet the mafticatory is neverthelefs entitled to a place among prefervatives from foul and con- tagious air, as it prevents the faliva, that is tainted by infpiration, from paffing into the habit by deglutition. Exanthematous or puftulary fevers, are fcldom mortal to thofe in whom a ptyalifm hath taken place. Thefe fevers rarely ter- minate by fweat, but by faliva :—a catarrh, by diarrhoea. Tobacco is a mafticatory. But it is par- ticularly to be obferved, that the united power of medicine and diet cannot fupply a wafte or defeft of that fine digeftive fluid fa- liva, Great fpitters are never great eaters. Dr. Bryan Robinfon favoured the Public with an ingenious treatife on the great falu. tary power of morning fafting-fpittle. The common abfurd habits of trifling with this powerful exotic, occafions the abufe of it to be fo remarkably pernicious. That which naufeates, may fupprefs hunger, but cannot feed. The apathy that is confequent to the internal ufc of tobacco, evidently flmws that the