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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

again to Flanders with the Army I never design that any more being sufficiently deterred from it by the ill Treatment I had there last Year by the means of some of my old Friends the Surgeons And that I may no longer continue at Variance with so great a Body of Men I have sold the Receipt of my Vulnerary Powder and Tincture and all the said Medicines I had by me to a Gentleman who is better able to dispose of them for the Publick Good of Mankind than I could and therefore shall for the future wholly apply my self to my Practice of Physick in which if I have Success which I doubt not I shall have business maugre all my Enemies Malice From my House in Villars-street York-Buildings in the Strand Mar. 25 th 1696. Some further CONSIDERATIONS Concerning Alkaly and Acid c. I Thought to have said no more upon this Subject until the Publication of my History of Human Blood But I finding that to be a thing of greater difficulty and that a much greater Number of Experiments than I at first thought of will be necessary to make that History compleat in all its Parts by which means it will be something longer than I at first intended before that Piece appears in the world Therefore I have thought fit First To explain the Terms or what is meant by Alkaly and what by Acid which I find very many people who are not Physicians are in great measure ignorant of Secondly To explain the Nature of them somewhat more fully and clearly than I have yet done Thirdly and Lastly To answer the Objections that have been raised against some particular things contained in my Essay All which Heads I shall handle with as much Brevity and Perspicuity as possibly I can omitting the more full Prosecution of them till the Publication of my History of Human Blood which I hope will be ready for the Press about the Month of June I shall make bold to declare That I have not Published this Doctrine of Alkaly and Acid out of any design of appearing singular or being the Head of a Faction but out of mere Pity and Compassion to Mankind my Fellow-Creatures whose deplorable Circumstances under Mistaken Methods I have long bewailed to see Physick made the Scene of Slaughter and so many miserable Mortals the helpless Sick sent daily to their Last Homes as Victims to Error and Ignorance Whilst the Learned Prescriber jogs on in his old mistaken Alkalious Road not dreaming as the Wise-Man says that Death is there and that his Portion I mean the Patient's is with the Worms But that I may return to my Business First To explain the Terms or what is meant by Alkaly and what by Acid. Alkaly derives its Name from the Herb Kaly from the Ashes of which Herb is extracted a large quantity of Salt which by the Venetians and others is much used in the making of Soap and Glass and this Salt they call Sal Kaly and by leaving out the S Alkaly Now the Ashes of all or most Vegetables affording a Salt of the same nature with the Ashes of the Herb Kaly therefore all Lixivial Salts are equivocally called Alkalies and all other things of the same nature whether manifestly Saline or not Alkalies such are Arsnick and all the Testacea as Pearl Coral Crabs-Eyes Oyster-Shells c. and all Urinous Spirits and Salts such as Spirit and Salt of Blood Urine Harts-horn c. And some think that of these Alkalies are made the famous White Powder so much talk'd of which kills without a Bounce and murthers without making a Noise Acid I suppose did first derive its name from Acaid an Arabian Word for Acetum Vinegar which is the most common and known Acid and therefore all things of the same Taste and Nature with Vinegar Acids such are the Juices of most Fruits and Plants in their Natural state and unfermented though all fermented Vegetable Juices do after fermentation retain something of their pristine Acidity though not in so eminent a degree But every body knows that all fermented Juices such as all sorts of Wine Ale Beer c. let them be preserved with never so much care will at last return to their pristine state of Acidity All Metaline Sulphurs ate to be ranged amongst the Number of Acids they being nothing but a Congestion of Acid Particles I may likewise without presumption reckon all sorts of Balsoms and Pinquedinous and Oleaginous Substances amongst the number of Acids by reason that in the most bare and simple Distillation they afford large quantities of Acid Substances but nothing that is Alkalious Bread also that is not without reason accounted the Staff of Life affords also by Distillation a large quantity of an Acid Substance which is no despicable Menstruum Sugar which though in its Taste seems to be nothing less than an Acid yet by a Philosophical Management appears to be nothing else but a Congestion of Acid Particles Thus for the present I think I have given a sufficient account of what I mean by Alkaly and what by Acid and also what things are to be accounted Alkalies and what Acids There are some things which seem to be of a mixt nature between Alkaly and Acid which things we call Neutrals Now those things of this Tribe which afford by much a greater quantity of Acid Substances than Alkalious ones I stick not to call Acids because the Acid predominates and those that afford by much a greater quantity of Alkalious than Acid Substances I call Alkalies Though in a more strict sense they deserve rather to be called either Sub-Acid Alkalies or Sub-Alkaline Acids according as either the one or the other predominates I shall now proceed to my Second thing which is To explain the Nature of Alkalies and Acids more fully and clearly than I have yet done For the well Performance of which Task I shall compare the Operation of them both upon Human Bodies both internally taken and externally applied I shall begin with Sal Kaly which is the Standard of Alkalies and compare that with Vinegar the Standard of Acids Sal Kaly and so all Lixivious Vegetable Salts as Salt of Wormwood c. being applied outwardly to the bare Skin scorcheth and burneth the same all one as if a Red Hot Iron were actually applied to it causing an Escar which falling off an Ulcer follows Nay indeed there is scarce any other Caustick used than a Lixivium of Sal Kaly which is what the Chyrurgeons call Capital or Strong Soap-Lees evaporated to Driness The same being taken inwardly without being greatly diluted by some Aqueous Vehicle in most people causeth enormous Vomitings which I my self have formerly experienced and if it be never so much diluted if it doth not excite Vomitings it rarely fails of either depraving palling or totally destroying the Appetite Besides being conveyed into the Blood by breaking its Globules and spoiling of its Texture it causeth either Scorbutes Rheumatisms Sciatica's Consumptions Gout Palsies