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A80062	Some farther considerations concerning alkaly and acid, by way of appendix to a late essay Wherein the terms are made clear, and the natures of them both more fully explained: together with an answer to the objections that have been raised against some things contained in the said essay. By John Colbatch, physician.; Physico-medical essay, concerning alkaly and acid. Appendix	Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729.; Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729. physico-medical essay, concerning alkaly and acid.	1696 (1696)	Wing C5010; ESTC R204393	23,530	114

supposed It is very well known that few people are troubled with an Acidity in their Stomachs but those who use very little exercise or whose Business disposes them to a Sedentary Life and by this means the Chyle when made for want of Motion and Exercise the Fibres of the Stomach also having lost their Tone and become laxe is not soon enough carried out of the Stomach and lying there too long the greatest part of it is turned into a Substance like unto the Ferment which at first dissolved it All people who know the nature of Ferments will readily enough agree with me in this That it is the nature of them to endeavour the Change of those things they are mixed with into their own nature Object 3. But some will say We can agree with you in what you have said hitherto but how will you do to clear your self of your own seeming Objection which is That this Acid Substance shall be kept from being conveyed into the Blood and so being the only Cause of many Diseases Answ I have always observed That those people who complain of an extraordinary Acidity in their Stomach First They make Water often and in large quantities Secondly They are very Lean. And Thirdly They are for the most part very Costive All which Symptoms I shall endeavour to prove are occasioned for want of the Acid Substance contained in the Stomach being conveyed into the Blood As for the first Head Why people who complain of an Acidity in their Stomachs make more Water than those who are destitute of it the Reason I judge to be as follows The solid Food they eat instead of being converted into a Viscid White Liquor we call Chyle only by means of too great a quantity of Acid is over-attenuated and converted into a Thin Limpid Substance and that in a short time which Thin Substance by means of the Liver pressing upon the Stomach instead of passing into the Small Guts through the Pylorus is squeezed into certain Vessels which pass from the bottom of the Stomach to the Kidneys and so is carried off by Urine To prove that there are such Vessels which pass immediately from the bottom of the Stomach to the Kidneys I shall transcribe a Passage out of Doleus's Encyclopedia Med. pag. 359 360. speaking of the parts affected in the Dropsy I suppose says he that Liquid Substances may be conveyed from the Stomach through the Omentum or Cawl to the Kidneys hence it is those Animals who have no Cawl make no Water as may be seen in Birds and Fishes For the Confirmation of which Opinion I have dissected many Animals always taking care before the Operation to gorge them with large quantities of clear Water afterwards have dissected them alive I have found the Stomach as yet distended with the Water but pressing the Vessels of the Cawl which lead towards the Stomach which being covered over with Fat like unto the Milky Veins were to my no little satisfaction very Turgid And forasmuch as in a living Body the Pores of the Stomach and other Passages are always more open than in dead ones where all things are flaggy and fall together therefore the said Transmutation is not at all to be wonder'd at And which is worth taking notice of in those Hydropical People I have opened I have always found the Cawl either Putrid Torn or full of Tumors The following Experiment has also much confirmed me in my Opinion viz. That there are Vessels to convey Liquid Substances from the Stomach through the Vessels of the Cawl to the Kidneys Not long since an experienced Herniotomist or Cutter of Ruptures of Hanover whose Name was Wedling by Section cured a certain Person of an Omental Rupture and because a part of the Cawl was also cut away the Patient who is yet alive does greatly complain of a difficulty in making Water and if at any time he drinks any large quantity he perceives a very great Weight and Pain about his Stomach and is always loose hence in my conjecture some Vessels which carry the Urine right on to the Emulgents were cut by which means all the Drink he drank was carried into the Duodenum and so hinders the Fermentation that is there performed and makes all the Fibres laxe From all which may be proved that all we drink and of consequence all other Substances made very liquid in the Stomach do not pass through the Intestines to the Lacteal Veins and from thence through the Thoractuck Duct to the Heart because the Pylorus is reflex to the Stomach lest the Liquid Substances contained in it should slide out It is therefore certain that Liquid Substances lying at the bottom of the Stomach do pass through it in that part which is joined to the Cawl and if these Vessels or the Cawl it self are either lacerated broken putrified or obstructed with Oedematous Tumors it necessarily follows that the Liquid Substances contained in the Stomach must be let fall into the Cavity of the Abdomen and so a Dropsy is caused But being free from any such disorder Liquid Substances must freely pass through them to the Kidneys and so to the Bladder I could cite other Authorities besides my own Observations as Sir George Ent Charlton Waldsmiedght c. but this one is I think sufficient From this Doctrine may very great Consolation be afforded to People labouring under the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder and Industrious Physicians need not despair of finding out such Medicines as will Dissolve or Break to pieces Stones contained in either of those parts One great reason I verily believe that has hindred Persons from making diligent search after such Medicines has been from a supposition that scarce any Medicine could retain its Virtue but must be in great measure or altogether destroyed by the many Alterations it must undergo according to the ordinary Laws of Circumlocution but were they fully satisfied as there is no reason to the contrary of this nearer Cut I suppose people would not think the dissolving Stones in the Kidneys and Bladder so difficult a Task as it hath hitherto been thought to be To prove the Existence of the foresaid Passages for Fluid Substances from the Stomach through the Vessels of the Cawl to the Kidneys and that Medicines may pass unalter'd to the Kidneys and Bladder I shall insert a Couple of Cases One Mr. Bradford an Eminent Tradesman of Worcester sent to me one Afternoon desiring me to make all possible haste for that he was upon the Wrack When I came to him I found him in a most dreadful condition he not having made Water of two Days and such an intolerable Pain in his Back that he was not able to support himself under it I presently gave him some Medicines ordering him to take them in large quantities once in half an hour In an hour and half 's time at furthest he sent to me to acquaint me that he was well and at ease having piss'd two large

Some Farther CONSIDERATIONS Concerning ALKALY and ACID By Way of APPENDIX To a late ESSAY WHEREIN The Terms are made Clear and the Natures of them Both more fully Explained Together with an Answer to the Objections that have been raised against some Things contained in the said Essay By John Colbatch Physician LONDON Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar 1696. TO THE Learned and Ingenious Dr. Edward Baynard Fellow of the College of Physicians London Honoured Sir THE Civil and Gentleman-like Treatment I met with the first time I saw you and the many Favours I have received from you since I have been honoured with your more Intimate Acquaintance emboldens me to prostrate this Trifle at your Feet not pretending thereby to merit any thing from you but as a just Acknowledgment of the many Obligations I lye under It would be a Wrong to you for me to speak any thing in your Praise your Merits being better known than I am able to represent them It was you SIR who were for ought I know the most early Cultivator of the Doctrine of Acids in the Cure of Diseases in this Nation and the Success you have had in your Practice sufficiently makes it appear that you very well understood what you went about when you durst contend with the whole World by treading in a New Path to Aid and Succor Life which few Physicians ever went before Macte SIR in so Great a Work as in Saving from the Grave so shall the Name of Baynard not be known to the Widow nor the Cries of the Fatherless entail Vengeance on your House And would your Multiplicity of Business but permit you to collect your own Observations and make them Publick I am sure the Mouths of all your Opposers would be for ever stopp'd and their Errors cured by your Healing Hand for I know your Charity extends to Lunacy as well as other Diseases For none but the Moon-sick can doubt so known and clear a Truth as are the daily and most apparent Cures done by the Happy Discovery of the Use of Acids 'T is well known SIR that Nature and Art has sufficiently arm'd you for any Enemy if such there are tho your Condonable Disposition is like the Sun which shines even upon the Curs that bark at him Your Pardon SIR for this Trouble and I doubt not but from you to meet with a Generous Acceptance and Protection and if Dr. Baynard espouse my Cause I care not who is against me I assure you I bring no common Inclinations to serve you neither would I by ordinary Testimonies express that Passion wherewith I am SIR Your most Humble and most Devoted Servant JOHN COLBATCH THE Preface I Have so enquired into the Causes of Diseases as to be altogether certain of the truth of the Hypothesis I have already advanced and am now in some measure endeavouring to confirm But I don 't at all pretend to have arrived to so much Certainty as that by the Methods I take to make People Immortal and that no Person shall die with whom I am concerned which is what I believe some People have expected from me But for my Part I shall always entirely submit to and have respects for the Providence of the Almighty who alone is the Author and Disposer of our Lives and who by the mouth of an Inspired Writer has declared That our days are determined and beyond the Limitation set by that wise Author of Nature we cannot pass it being altogether impossible for Creatures to contend with their Creator or to extend the Time that he hath limited Physicians are of all men without doubt the most unhappy People in their Extremities looking upon them as their Saviours and Deliverers yet after all they having done as much as 't was in the power of man to do having in all respects acquitted themselves with the utmost fidelity and diligence if their Patients die their appointed time being come and the number of their days alotted them by the Almighty being expired yet the Friends and Relations of the Party deceased seldom fail to charge them in one respect or other though instead of being blamed the Physician has deserved their utmost Favour and Esteem By what I have said I would not be so understood That I am so far a Predestinarian as to believe that Peoples Lives are not frequently prolonged by the use of fit and proper Medicines For if it were not so why should the wise Creator have been at so much trouble in providing such a vast number of Medicines in the Animal Vegetable and Mineral Kingdoms if he did not by them design a real service to Mankind in distress God generally gives a Blessing to proper means it not being usual for him to work Miracles every day He teaches the Plowman how to plow his Ground and the Seedsman to sowe his Seed but the Plowman instead of a Plow must not use a Harrow neither must the Seedsman expect to reap Wheat if he sowes Barley So it is in the practice of Physick he that expects success in his Practice must first endeavour rightly to know the Causes of Diseases and then to use fit Remedies and after that the Event must be left to the Blessing of the Almighty The Plowman may plow his ground aright and the Seedsman sowe his Seed in due season and after all is done they may reap no Crop so the Physician may have an exact knowledge of the Causes of Diseases and may use the most fit and proper Medicines in the World and yet at last be frustrated in his Aim Which ought to shew us what an exact reliance and dependance we should have upon the Blessing of God on all our Endeavours without which we are like to make but little progress in any thing I tread in an unbeaten Path and therefore cannot so happily and easily arrive at my Journeys end as if I had had some body or other before to have chalked out my way for me I hope I shall not by these my Endeavours incur the displeasure of any one of those Physicians who are of a contrary Judgment to me they being still left at liberty to use their own Methods and Alkalious Medicines For tho we act upon different Principles our Ends and Designs are the same which are the Cure of Diseases and if I after a multitude of Experiments am convinced that Acids are not the Causes of Diseases but on the contrary that Alkalies are and upon that score am induced to use Acids in all or most Distempers I don't see any reason why People should reproach me for it since I have made no Personal Reflections upon any one As for the Physicians of our own Nation I have the highest Value and Esteem for them having generally found them to be Men of greater Learning and who understand the business of their Profession better than any of the Physicians I have at all met with abroad As for going

or some other of the fatal Tribe of Chronical Diseases Now I have shewn what Sal Kaly and the rest of the Tribe of Vegetable Lixivious Salts will do in the next place let 's see what effects even common plain Vinegar which is the standard of Acids will have being externally used and internally taken It is well known that Vinegar being externally applied is of extraordinary use in a great many sorts of Inflamations of singular use in an Erisipelas or St. Anthony's Fire Cloaths being dipp'd in it and applied to the Forehead and Temples to the Wrists the Stomach and bottoms of the Feet I have experimentally found to be of extraordinary use in some very burning Feavers I have likewise my self before I had found out a more certain Remedy sometimes made use of it with good success in great Bleedings at the Nose by dipping a Spunge in good strong Vinegar and applying it to the Scrotum I have also known it with good success to have been made use of by poor people in stinking old Ulcers From all which it appears that being externally applied it 's no Caustick and will make no Ulcer but on the contrary will cure Ulcers ease Pain c. Now we have seen some of its good Effects being externally applied let 's see what it will do being internally taken In the first place I shall mention an Account given of it by the Ingenious Dr. Baynard He says that he was called in to a Person who had a Total Suppression of Urine under which he had laboured some considerable time and that several things had in vain been given him he immediately gave him a large Draught of Vinegar which soon made him to Piss freely and by repeating of it two or three times he was perfectly freed from his Indisposition The Doctor has given an account of this in one of the Philosophical Transactions but I have not read it neither have I time at present to look over those Papers I think also he has told me that the same thing he has done with the same plain Medicine two or three times He likewise gave me several Instances of many Persons in most violent Fevers who have been presently cured by drinking large Draughts of Atterpool Water well acidulated I am also most creditably inform'd That Dr. Bently a late famous Physician in Cheshire who lived to almost a Hundred Years of Age had such wonderful Success in Fevers that he acquir'd the Name of the Feaver-Doctor and that his Medicine was nothing else but the Decoction of a certain Herb well acidulated with the Spirit of a Noble Acid which I am obliged not to reveal A Worthy Lady whose Name I must not mention has assured me That she has brought in the use of Vinegar or Verjuice Posset-drink amongst her poor Neighbours in the Countrey where she lives in the Small-Pox and where that has been used from the beginning she has scarce observ'd any one to dye or be disfigur'd which is agreeable to what I observe in my Essay p. 24. I have likewise frequently observed that three or four Spoonfuls of Vinegar will immediately check the most violent Vomitings occasioned by the taking of some harsh Antimonial Medicines A great many other good qualities hath simple Vinegar internally taken and externally applied besides its being a good Menstruum that I think not fit here to enumerate The next thing I shall do will be to compare Arsnick as the highest and most exalted Alkaly with Oyl of Vitriol the most exalted Acid. As for the external use of Arsnick I know nothing of it experimentally but it being a thing of that pernicious consequence internally taken I suppose it can have no very friendly operation externally applied Internally taken it causeth the most enormous Vomitings and Convulsions of the Stomach Cold Sweats Palpitations of the Heart Swoonings most violent Thirst and in general seems to be a direct Enemy to Life which in a short time it fails not to destroy All which effects it will not fail to have given in never so small a quantity And all those people who have been so vain as to pretend to correct the Poysonous Venomous Quality of Arsnick so as to convert it into a good and safe Medicine have attempted it only by the means of Acid Salts such as Sea-Salt Nitre Tartar Vitriol c. wherein I cannot tell whether any man hath yet been so happy as to succeed To prove Arsnick to be an Alkaly and as such is the Cause of all those dreadful Symptoms that attend those people who are so unhappy as to take it I shall insert a Relation made to me by Mr. Payne an Apothecary of Brandford on Saturday Feb. 16. which was as follows A certain Young Woman of Brandford having taken a very large quantity of Arsnick as he told me an Ounce she was immediately attended with all the most violent Symptoms imaginable upon which Dr. Morris was called in who gave her large Quantities of Sallad Oyl the usual Remedy without in the least abating the Symptoms Upon which he ordered them to procure a large quantity of Lemmons and to press the Juice out of them of which Juice he plentifully gave her which soon took off and abated those imminent and direful Symptoms which inevitably threaten'd Death though the Operation of the Acid might be somewhat impeded through the quantity of Oyl she had taken before But to return to my Business which is to see what are the Effects of Oyl of Vitriol I confess the Acid Particles of Oyl of Vitriol are so concentrated as to make it unfit to be externally applied or internally taken of it self but being diluted in any proper Vehicle is a Medicine second to none that I know of A few Drops in Canary given to the youngest Children who are troubled with Worms seldom or never fails of having the desired effect It being mixed with Honey of Roses is one of the best Medicines that perhaps is known for the Scurvy in the Gums breeding Flesh where it it is wanting and fastening the Teeth Being mixed with Spring-Water and Brandy of each equal parts to a moderate Acidity is no despicable Medicine in giving ease in the most Tormenting Pains of the Gout the Part being fomented with it Night and Morning I may be almost positive that the Medicine used by the Ingenious Swiss Gentlemen who now reside in this City and are become so deservedly famous particularly for the Cure of Sir Robert Howard is nothing else but a Mixture of Oyl of Vitriol with a certain Oleaginous Body in due proportion The same Medicine is also used and sold by Mr. Fisher Chyrurgeon in Aldersgate-street Which Medicine rarely fails giving immediate Ease in the most Tormenting Pains of the Gout Which is a Confirmation of the Truth of what I have said in my Essay concerning the Gout wherein I assert that it is not from any Acidity in the Blood that the Gout is occasioned but from Particles of a