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A70016 A letter to a gentleman concerning alkali and acid being an answer to a late piece, intituled, A letter to a physician concerning acid and alkali : to which is added A specimen of a new hypothesis for the sake of the lovers of medicine / by Thomas Emes ... Emes, Thomas, d. 1707. 1700 (1700) Wing E710; ESTC R236727 43,424 66

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with Oyl of Vitriol and Sp. of Niter c. preserved Blood fluid and also free from Putrefaction the last of which is what neither Volatil nor sixt Alkalies will do as may be seen by the following Experiments EXPERIMENT 1. He mix'd with 5 or 6 Ounces of Blood 6 Drops of 🝆 of 🜖 diluted in 2 Ounces of Water and it preserved the Blood fluid gave it a better colour and consistency than some of the same he mix'd nothing with he kept it in a Viol 18 Days and it was equally free from any smell or signs of Putrefaction as when it stream'd from the Vein In Answer to which I say he is not sure that the 2 Ounces of Water would not do more towards keeping the Blood fluid thin and of a bright colour than the 6 Drops of 🝆 of 🜖 could do one way or other But to do the Gent. all right and to Answer fairly to his Experiments I try'd them more nicely than he did For I took the same Proportion of 🝆 of 🜖 and Water that he did and having made it just blood-warm in the Viol I let the Blood of a healthy young Man run from the Vein into it till I had that just quantity by weight in proportion to the 🝆 of 🜖 and Water and shaking them well together and stoping the Viol with a Cork I set it by It soon look'd of a muddy black Colour and being open'd at 14 Days it began to stink EXPERIMENT 2. The like proportion of Blood he says he mix'd with 30 Drops of Oyl of Tartar in 2 Ounces of Water it seem'd to remain fluid in the Porringer but having let it stand close stop'd in a Viol 3 or 4 days the grumous part was precipitated and it stunk most intollerably and the smell was like that proceeding from a dead Body whose Lungs or other Vicera have been Vlcerated The Gentleman has 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this Experiment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blood was like that of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have been exulce●●●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doubtless that can dis●●●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 parts from that of all 〈◊〉 flesh corrup●●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wonder if he don't conclude the exulceration of the Lungs proceeds from Oyl of Tartar But I try'd this Experiment also after the same manner I did the former I open'd it at 4 Days and it had no more ill smell than when it came from the Vein at 8 Days I open'd it again it was likewise free from any ill smell so again at 12 Days at 14 and at 18 and at 23 and at 28 Days it look'd well and had no ill smell when some Blood that had nothing but the proportion of Water stunk in half the time EXPERIMENT 3. He mix'd he says with the like quantity of Blood 20 Drops of Sp. of 🜖 dulc in 2 Ounces of Water and it preserv'd the Blood fluid gave it a better colour hindering its parts from subsiding nor did it stink in the least while he kept it which was 20 or 30 Days In this Experiment the 20 drops of Sp. of 🜖 dulc must have at least 10 of Sp. of Wine which we know will preserve Blood But I tryed this also as I did the foregoing and having kept it 14 Days it stunk much and look'd no better than that in which was nothing but Water But in his 4 EXPERIMENT He says he mixed 30 Drops of Sp of 🜖 with 4 Ounces of Blood and it preserv'd it fluid but after 7 or 8 Days he open'd the Viol and it sent forth a very offensive Stink I also try'd this Experiment as I did the others and open'd the Viol at 8 Days at 12 Days at 16 Days and at 20 Days and it had no ill smell at all lastly at 28 Days was thin and of better colour and consistence than the Blood in any of the other Experiments and had no ill smell but that with the 🝆 of 🜖 look'd worst of all The Gent. adds If these four Experiments are not enough to convince the Dr. of the falsehood of my Assertion he has variety of others at his Service I answer he whose commanding Requests oblig'd the Gentleman to write needs no more to convince him But I think if they will serve him no better than these have done he will do better to keep his service to himself The Gent. says pag. 17. that whereas I argue a juvantibus ledentibus and say that Acids are seen often to hurt in Hypochondriack Hysterick and Scor●utical Cases and in Vlcers Issues c. which on the contrary are relieved by Alkalies but he has 〈◊〉 my bare word for it I say my Word is as good as anothers but I could give Observations not only of my own but of divers famous Physicians But no Authorities but those of Acid Doctors are any thing to the Acid Gentleman who farther says should he undertake effectually to prove that Acids are the only Medicines which cure those Diseases I have named it must be by enumerating observations of Cures perform'd by them which would make his Epistle too long Here the Gentleman speaks well for if he should prove that Acids are the only Medicines that cure these Diseases he must not only enumerate all the Acid Doctors Cures who I am well inform'd often Cure sine recidiva but he must enumerate all the Cures that have been done in the World of these Diseases and ascertain us that all of them were done by Acids which would indeed be too long for a Letter to a Man of business But I believe he would in his own Practice hardly be able to give us many instances of Ulcers cur'd with nothing but Acids or be willing to be dress'd with nothing else himself But to save the vast labour he gives us a Catalogue of some of the most celebrated Medicines used in curing those distempers as steel in its best Preparations all the Acid Spirits and Elixirs Crem Tart. Tart. Vitriolat Sal. Succini c. and refers to Dr. Colbatch his Authority But I must tell the Gentleman Dr. Colbatch his Authority and his reasoning are no better one than the other Steel Acid Spirits c. he says are the most celebrated Medicines in use in the cure of the foremention'd Diseases Ergo those Diseases are cur'd by nothing else And would that be good Logick yet the Medicines enumerated are not all Acids or cure as such as we may have occasion to shew before we have done But our Gent. says pag. 18. He won't believe me that an Acid can be got from Blood or Vrine of either healthy or diseased Persons because I have not told him the process Answer I thought I had told it plain enough to any one that understands a little Chymistry And I can make him believe it very easily but that I don't write to teach Gentlemen Chymistry but to shew them the Ignorance and groundless Confidence and danger of Acid Quacks But he complains farther that I will not teach him the Legerdemain of mixing Alk.
a proper quantity of an aqueous Vehicle which is the method of giving such Acids it will preserve the Blood fluid and free from Putrefaction I answer the Oyl of Vitriol will coagulate the Blood and alter its due Texture before there is a separation made of the Serum yea while in the Veins if injected and in all reason that which will coagulate much in such or such a quantity will do it a little in a small quantity But Water will certainly dilute and make thin the Blood and perhaps two ounces of Water will do more to thin the Blood than two or three drops of oyl of Vitriol to thicken it if they always accompany one another and I do not think it possible to give so much Oyl of Vitriol in at the Mouth as is enough to coagulate the mass of Blood in the Veins without killing by something it will do before it comes there but Oyl of Vitriol and such like things being not subject to the ferments of our Bodies and not so easily carried off by our Heat as Water if they come into the Blood must have their Being some where or other and if they six and adhere to any particular Part may cause a small Coagulation there or by thickning the Blood retard its motion or by retarding its motion thicken it and so give occasion to some stoppage in some small Veins and wherever the Blood stagnates it will be coagulated and corrupted tho' the thing that caus'd the Stagnation were not the immediate cause of the Coagulation and Corruption But if Oyl of Vitriol and such Acids be so excellent to thin the Blood and consequently accellerate its Motions I would know what Gentlemen give it for in Feavers and such like Distempers rather than Sp. of Sal. Armon which will do so if it cools I should think it is by retarding the rapid Motion of the Blood and if the Blood run slow it is more apt to Coagulate But perhaps Gentlemen Acidists give it not because it retards or accelerates the Blood thickens it or thins it cools it or heats it but merely because it is an Acid and will do every thing and that because Mr. Colebatch says Acids are the only Medicines that cure all Diseases he is sure of it tho' he does no more Cures except deadly ones than others and his little Satelites must say so tho' neither he nor they can tell how it Operates or why they give it But the Gent. urges farther that 2 Ounces of Sp. of Niter in a convenient quantity of Water what that is he wont tell us preserved an Embrio And 't is the Acid of Salt preserves Flesh and Fish from Putrefaction For if you divest the Salt of its Acid what remains will never do the business Vinegar and Salt preserve Cucumbers Capers c. I answer 2 Ounces of Sp. of Sal. Armon or of a ●ixivium yea or Bittern that wicked thing in a convenient quantity of Water will do as much or more but why Not because they are call'd Acid or Alkali but because they are saline Bodies which in such quantities hinder Fermentation So Sea Salt not because it is call'd an Acid or an Alkali or a S●●sum but because it hinders that inward motion of the particles of Flesh c. that would bring it to Corruption But whether what remains will do the like when Sea Salt is divested of its Acid Mr. Acid nor his Gentleman ever tryed For I must tell them what I find they are ignorant of that Sea Salt will be distill'd all into Spirit and be reduced all into Sea Salt again it is so homogeneous a Body But perhaps he means the Earth with which it is distill'd will not do It is from the same reason that Salt and Vinegar preserve Cucumbers c. But yet I believe if the Gentleman or his Physician either were kept a little while in such pickle he would find it not very friendly to the vital Frame tho' it might keep them from stinking Our Gentleman pag. 36. tells us that I said that Animals that yield half their weight of Acid Liquor will putrefie sooner than others that abound with more Alkali But he can't conceive what Animals these should be No wonder a Gentlemen is unacquainted with the Materia Medica that can't recite what I said For I did not say sooner than others but as soon or sooner than some others not that abound with more Alkali but that abound with Alkali for those Animals don't abound with Alkali but with Acid. But tho' he grants what I said it won't follow says he That their Putrefaction is caus'd by the great quantity of Acids true I never argued so for Acid is their proper Nature but notwithstanding they are such sour Fellows they will corrupt contrary to Mr. Colebatch his Assertion that it were impossible that Bodies full of Acid shuld putrifie But he thinks the Animals putrified because of the deprivation of their Acid it going off in Effluvia But he is mistaken for they were crose stopp'd in a Glass and perspire much more when alive The Gentleman goes on to make the same mistakes asserting that I said Vegetabl●s that yield most Acid and Oyl will rot sooner than others when I said as soon or sooner than some others and that Crabs Oranges and Lemons will rot sooner than Apples that are not so sour when I said sooner than some Apples that are not sour But he says Experience informs us how false this Assertion is for Lemons are preserved longer than Apples and will not putrifie but when bruised and Lemon-pill will be preserved many Years by drying I answer Lemons are preserved longer than some Apples but not than others and thanks to their Peel which according to the Acid Doctors should rot first being less Acid. He adds that he hath kept a Vegetable 2 Years in Water acidulated with Sp. of Salt sound and entire I believe it may be true if try'd on some sort of Vegetables But he concludes with a defiance to shew him an Alkali Volatile or fixt that will preserve Animals or Vegetables from Putrefaction tho' I gave him 2 or 3 in the same Leaf and I would give him another if I thought he would still believe Bittern that wicked thing to be an Alkali But he comes pag. 37. at length to Alum and he is not contented that I said Alum is not an Acid nor has the effects of an Acid because it turns Syr. of Violets green and that Alum is us'd in making Leather on the account of its astringency But the Gentleman is of another Opinion for he finds 't is the Chalky substance in Alum turns the Syr. green But his reason is no better than this that the Acid Sp. will turn the Syr. red very good but I spake of the whole compound that it was not an Acid because it turns the Syr. green and the Gentleman says it is because one part of the product turns it red But I have Master Colebatch