Category: Health & Medicine
Transcriber’s Note: the listed errata, and a few other small typographical errors, have been corrected. The author’s eighteenth-century variable spelling is left unchanged. Normal text within italic passages is indicated ~like this~.
As to the fixed Gout, where the morbid Matter remains long in a Place, I take it that many acid Salts and viscid Humours contained in the Blood, occasion a greater Coagulation a...
5. Part 5These Things premised, I shall next examine how it comes to pass that Milk is endued with this mighty Power; but it is necessary first to enquire concerning the genuine Cause of...
2. Part 2Fermentation is a Change in Vegetables by Means of some intestine Motion, the Effect whereof is, that in Distillation there arises a volatile inflammable Liquor, capable of mixi...
1. Part 1Transcriber’s Note: the listed errata, and a few other small typographical errors, have been corrected. The author’s eighteenth-century variable spelling is left unchanged. Norm...
4. Part 4Nothing can be more agreeable to me, than to satisfy the Desire of my Friends afflicted with the Gout, in communicating the Method of Diet, by which the Marquis _de Bongi_, _Mon...
3. Part 3The Change of Colour in Milk, by Alkalies, from White to Red, gives a very evident Reason for the easy Transmutation of the Chyle into Blood, when it leaves its vegetable Nature...
7. Part 7For these Reasons those that feed upon Milk should take Care that the Animal they take it from have sweet and good Pasture; Cows give sweeter and better Milk in Summer, when fed...