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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    well as the malignant fore-throat, fa fre¬ quently fatal in this country. The devaluation which the Plague not long fince occafioned at Mofcow and its neighbourhood, awakened, as your Lordfhip knows, at the Court of Ruffi'a, a fpirit of refearch into the hiftory of that dreadful difeafe, together with a ftridt inveftigation of the probable utility of every method by which its poifon might be corredied, or its contagion circumfcribed. That the Mu¬ riatic Acid, which I have found beyond comparifon the molt efficacious medicine hitherto ufed for flopping the progrefs of the putrid diforders before mentioned, is likely to prove the bell in this laft diftem- per (the in oft cruel and calamitous of all others), I am, from the fimilarity of their fymptoms, deeply perfuaded. My ideas on the fubjedt I was fome time ago prompted, by the very ingenious and intelligent