A letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. concerning the virtues of the muriatic acid, or spirit of sea-salt, in the cure of putrid diseases / By Sir William Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1790
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Credit: A letter to Sir John Sinclair, Bart. concerning the virtues of the muriatic acid, or spirit of sea-salt, in the cure of putrid diseases / By Sir William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the very touch of thofe unfortunate perfons, or of any thing that had touched them, was fatal, unlefs where they, like him, had gone through its different ftages. So far did his humanity, heroifm, and Jove of his country, carry that amiable man. How fuperior to thofe names that have been often fo loudly, though fo un- juftly, celebrated for their achievements in the deftrudion of millions! What remains here is to point out, if pcf- fible, fome Ample, eafy, and rational me¬ thod of putting the human body, where the difeafe in queftion prevails, into fuch a date, as thali probably guard it againft catching the deadly poifon. That fuch a prophyiadic may be found in the muriatic acid, or the concentrated fpirit of fea-falt, I am induced to believe for the reafons, and from the fads, which I will now fubjoin. Almoft