A treatise on the virtues and efficacy of a crust of bread, eat early in a morning fasting, to which are added some particular remarks concerning cures accomplished by the saliva, or fasting spittle, as well when externally applied, as when internally given, in the scurvy, gravel, stone, rheumatism, and divers other diseases, arising from obstructions. With some critical observations concerning the recrements of the blood; demonstrating, that when regularly secreted, they both contribute to preserve the life of animals, and keep them in health / By an eminent physician.

  • Robinson, Nicholas, 1697?-1775.
Date:
1767
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Credit: A treatise on the virtues and efficacy of a crust of bread, eat early in a morning fasting, to which are added some particular remarks concerning cures accomplished by the saliva, or fasting spittle, as well when externally applied, as when internally given, in the scurvy, gravel, stone, rheumatism, and divers other diseases, arising from obstructions. With some critical observations concerning the recrements of the blood; demonstrating, that when regularly secreted, they both contribute to preserve the life of animals, and keep them in health / By an eminent physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or two of Tea or Coffee, with a Slice of Bread and Butter •, for the great Point is fo to order the Air, Diet, and Exercile, as to be able to bring all the Motions of the animal Organs to a due Temperature, and then we fhall greatly promote the Operation of this falutary Reme¬ dy, and render its Virtues highly efficacious. - / His Supper I would advife him to take about Six or Seven in the Evening, and by no Means later j and, as Milk is phlegmatic, fo, if he pleafes, he may take Half a Pint, or more, of white-wine Whey, with a Sea-Bifcuit ; or, it it pleafes him better, he may take a Slice of nc\V Cheefe, and drink a few Glades of old Port, or a Pint of fine fo ft Ale, with about fix Ounces of theCiuft of a French Role orManchet. After thefe Things are done, 1 advife him not to eat any Thing kill about Six, Seven, or Eight of the Clock the next Morning, winch is the Time of his taking the grand Medicine: This confifts of Half an Ounce or fix Drachms, of the Fafting-Saliva, prefTed or fqueezed out from the Salival Glands into the Mouth, by the PrefTure of the Jaws and Teeth, in eating an Ounce or ten Drachms of the Cruft or Heel of a