An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bath-water, and the indications of cure, which it answers ... / by George Randolph.

  • Randolph, George, 1708-1764.
Date:
1752
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Credit: An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bath-water, and the indications of cure, which it answers ... / by George Randolph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    give rife to different Diftempers, there is jvery little that can be depended upon: The Galenifts make the proper Crafis of the Blood, to confifl in a due Temperament of the four Qualities, hot, cold, dry, moift. The more enlightened Chymijls, will have every Evil to arife from faline Acrimonies, and Effervefcencies; (though among the, many innumerable Combinations of Salts, they are not agreed, which particular Kinds belong to any particular Diflemper:) But who fees not that both thefe different Opinions, are nothing more than the Off-fhoots of their refpeCtive Philofo- phy ? So that till the learned World are better agreed concerning the ipecifick Na¬ ture of morbifick Juices, fuch our imper¬ fect Knowledge can never be received as a Fundamental add to this that the real Crafis of the Human Blood, as requifite for Health, or productive of any particular Diflemper, feems a Secret far above the Reach of Man’s Difcovery, having evaded all Refearches, both ancient and modern; and moreover it feems requifite to the un~