A free and candid examination of Dr. Cadogan's Dissertation on the gout, and chronic diseases. In which are contained, some observations on the nature and effects of alkalis and acids / By William Carter, late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon.

  • Carter, W. (William)
Date:
[1772?]
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Credit: A free and candid examination of Dr. Cadogan's Dissertation on the gout, and chronic diseases. In which are contained, some observations on the nature and effects of alkalis and acids / By William Carter, late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lin^d. In * fhort, it is hard to fay in what noofe we can hold this Proteus^ who fo often chano-es his fornV^% Wonderfully great improvements have been made by the prefent age, in the medi¬ cal way. ' The Author of the Differtation j has been fo lucky as to difcover, that bread and WINE are perniciousy and deftrudlive of health ; another gentleman has lately found cut, that NATURE has made water too impure^ and that a previous difbllation is neceffary to render it innocent. If two or three more would but dart up, and point out to us the mifehiefs arifing-from the eating*of fish, FOWL, and flesh, what a feene of hap- pinefs would be opened ! We might then have the pleafure of betaking ourfelves to the wide-extended plains ; of enjoying the frehi country air, and cf feeding on grafs with more avidity than an horfe, or an oX'f* A grafs-diet, if people could be brought to reliih it, might be of inefdmable ufe in thefe times of fcarcity and dearth. Some- ^ Quo teneam vultusmutantem Protea nodo? Horatii, ep. i. lib.i, t 45. thingi