tions on 



them. 



2 00 0/ Alterative Medicines. 



many trials made in one of our hofpitals) 

 in corredting the acrimony of the juices, 

 and difpofing the mod obftinate and inve- 

 terate fores to heal up ; and hence pro- 

 bably it came recommended as an altera- 

 tive to our horfes. 



Obferva- One of our moft eminent phyfical writ- 

 ers is very copious in the praife of this 

 medicine, and my Lord Bacon had fo 

 high an opinion of it, that he believedit 

 would prolong life; it is very certain, 

 that it is a great refiiler of putrefadion, 

 which our very cooks are no ilrangers 

 to: if then it will preferve the flefh of 

 dead animals, why not the blood and 

 juices of living ones ? That it renders them 

 more fluid, may be proved by mixing a 

 folution of it with blood fre(h drawn, 

 which will not only prevent the coagula- 

 tion, but change its very colour, from a 

 dark black to an elegant florid red, and 

 preferve it fo for fome time. Malpighius 

 has informed us, that he injedted it into 

 the very blood-veffels of a dog, where it 

 intimately mixed with the blood without 

 any detriment, or remarkable alteration, 

 except a more copious difcharge of urine. 

 Its power alfo of deilroying worms is very 

 remarkable. In fliort, a more ufeful me- 

 dicine perhaps fcarce exifts, and there 



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