An essay on the origin and discovery of the medicinal virtues of the spirits of turpentine : Dedicated to ... Princess Charlotte of Wales / [Anna Keane].

  • Keane, Anna.
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1816
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Credit: An essay on the origin and discovery of the medicinal virtues of the spirits of turpentine : Dedicated to ... Princess Charlotte of Wales / [Anna Keane]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which restored me to perfect health, which I pray you and your family may long enjoy, hi And am, Madam, with many thanks, Your obedient servant, JAMES BELL. Thus have I simply detailed the process by which I was led to discover the medicinal virtues of the Spirits ‘ *. it v , . v . . . • 1 ♦ r , fl t of Turpentine, in which I encroach not oh the ground • * J * J*t| of the learned profession. Mine was merely for its known efficacy in one case providentially discovered, reasoning from analogy to try it on another, and thus repetition of experiment establishing it as a specific in diseases of a certain peculiarity of feature, to extend its application to all cases similar in nature. I encroach not on the honours, that may be justly due to Doctor Brennan, in the numerous cases he has adduced of suc¬ cessful application; the gratitude of the Patients relieved should to him be more immediately directed as the ■ * < j agent of this cure, but the honor of priority of intro¬ duction, (if honor it may be called) is mine, as, I trust, lias been amply proved by me in the cases adduced, of D