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  <dc:title>Letter, 'Concerning the operation of medicines' from John Quincy to Saml [Samuel] Moreland [Morland]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Quincy describes his reasoning and conclusions on the function of medicine in the body, including that medicine works through bloodflow in the body, that all medicines that cause 'evacuation' are purges, and that purges act as dissolvents or stimuli.

Subject: Medicine / Pharmacy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter of Dr. John Quincy, to the late learned Mr. Sam. Moreland, F. R. S. concerning the operation of medicines'.

Read to the Royal Society on 19 May 1720.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1720]</dc:date>
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