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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33710	A relation of a very sudden and extraordinary cure of a person bitten by a viper, by the means of acids together with some remarks upon Dr. Tuthill's vindication of his objections against the doctrine of acids : wherein are contained several things in order to the further clearing of the said doctrine / by John Colbatch.	Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729.	1698 (1698)	Wing C5007; ESTC R12746	37,062	130

embrocated with the Mixture Of the Infusion he took four Ounces every four hours Whenever he was thirsty I advised him to take twenty Drops of the Dulcified Oyl of Vitriol in a draught of White Wine and Water One Sunday morning about eleven a Clock I went to visit him and when I came to his Lodgings I found Dr. Sloan with him the Doctor said the method that had been used was new but that the Man was in a very good condition and out of all danger He had slept well the whole night and was not in the least Feverish neither had he the least disorder upon him only a very small pain in his Finger the swelling of his Hand and Arm being greatly abated I ordered the continuing of his former method the which I had no reason to vary But Dr. Sloan proposed that if his Infusion should make him puke as it once had done then in the room of it he should at the same intervals take half a dram of Virginian Snake Root in pouder drinking afterwards two or three ounces of treacle-Treacle-water sweetned with Syrup of Gilliflowers the which I consented to it no way thwarting the Methods that had before been taken At night I visited him again and then found him as brisk and well as if nothing had ailed him the Infusion had not disagreed with him and therefore he took not the Powder of Snake Root but I mixed the treacle-Treacle-water and Syrup of Gilliflowers with the remaining part of the Infusion and ordered him to take four ounces of it morning and evening only so long as it lasted The next day I visited him again when I found him up and eating his Dinner very heartily I then ordered him to continue the use of the Cataplasm so long as he found the least swelling in any part and then dismissed him from my care there not being any more need of my further attendance A small swelling of his Finger continued for some time after but without trouble or pain I believe I may without vanity say that considering the symptoms that attended this man which were as severe as possible and he survive it there has not been a more extraor-dinary Cure wrought nor such symptoms raised upon such an occasion ever taken off in so short a space Now did the poison of Vipers consist in a Volatil Acid as some would make us believe how is it possible for any one to conceive that ever these dreadful Symptoms could be so soon taken off by giving more Acids and that in so extravagant a quantity as they were at first given by Mr. Stringer and Mr. Small Nay had the Poyson been an Acid it is very reasonable to believe that the more Acids they had given him the more his Symptoms would have been aggravated Whereas on the contrary it plainly appears that by the repeated large quantities that they gave him the Symptoms were so soon abated that it is almost past belief I cannot but observe that in the strange relation that Dr. Stubbs gives of the severe Symptoms that attended the man at VVarwick that was bitten with an Adder the only thing that put him out of danger of losing his life was the Mixtura simplex that was given him which is a most noble Acid but this man had not the Mixtura simplex given him in such quantities or in any proportion to the Acids that Mr. Philipson took neither was his Cure either so expeditious or so easie as may be seen in Dr. Stubbs's relation of that matter The hot Iron was equally useless in this as in that Case and I am apt to believe doth never do any service at all unless applied at the very instant of time that the bite is received Mr. Philipson did suck his Finger as soon as he was bit and to that a certain Physitian attributes a great deal and says it help'd to expedite the Cure Whereas there are several Authors of undoubted credit who have given relations of persons that have died by so doing And if this man had sucked out any great quantity of the Poison with his mouth how came the whole Hand and Arm to be so immediately affected in so dreadful a manner Lemery in his Course of Chymistry does confess that the Viper doth abound more with Volatile Alkalious Salts than most other Creatures and assigns a very good reason for it viz. from the extraordinary closeness of the Cutaneous Pores by which means they do not perspire so freely as other Creatures do Nay he confesseth that their Poison consisteth in the emission of a very great quantity of Volatile Salts at the time of their being enraged or angred but then to square himself with the vulgar Opinion he tells us that these Volatile Alkalious Salts are instantaneously at the time of their emission during the time of the Vipers short rage turned into Acids of the most volatile nature this is such Jargon that nothing can be imagined like it The transmutation of Metals even to those who are the greatest enemies to it is a mere jest to it If we look into Moses Charras his account of the German that was bit at his house after all the pother that he makes about his Volatile Salt of Vipers yet the Cure of that man was not performed without a great deal of hazard and trouble and the intermixture of a great many other Medicines besides that of the Volatile Salt and those even Acids too as Treacle-water and slices of Citrons with Sugar but these Acids could not so effectually operate as otherwise it 's probable they would have done by reason of their being obtunded by the Volatile Salt that was so frequently given him But Hoffman in his Clavis Pharmaceut Schroderi pag. 45 46. as I have elsewhere observed doth wholly attribute the Cure of this man to the Juice of Citrons after all other things had proved ineffectual and ridicules Charras for feigning the Poison to be an Acid For if this were so says Hoffman how could the juice of Citrons which is an Acid afford the Patient any relief I shall conclude this subject with this one observation viz. That Physicians get more reputation by keeping their Patients a long time in hand and in continual danger of their lives than by quick and expeditious Cures As for instance One Physician has a Patient sick of a Fever he takes such a method that his Patient lies a month in continual danger and hazard but at last recovers and gets abroad he then proclaims to every body the miraculousness of the Recovery and the Danger he was in upon which enquiry is made who was the Physician he immediately replies the Famous Doctor such a one and if he be a Person of any Note the Physician 's work is done Another Physician has a Patient that has the very same Fever this Physician takes care to obviate all symptoms and his Patient is abroad in eight or ten days and perhaps has never been in the least hazard