Therapeutics; or, the art of healing / By Thomas Marryat.

  • Marryat, Thomas, 1730-1792
Date:
1785
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Credit: Therapeutics; or, the art of healing / By Thomas Marryat. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    balfam of copiaba on fugar, twice or thrice a day; which has no heating quality, as fome fuppofe, but, on the contrary, lowers the pulfe : I have feen admirable efferis from it. Or, a tea-fpoonful of fpirits of hartfhorn per fe, which is an excellent attenuant. Or, a tea-fpoonful of dulcified fpirit of nitre ; either of thefe to be ufed two or three times a day. This linrius may be allowed at pleafure, to abate the viol- ence of the cough. Take of Conferve of red rofes, half an ounce* Juice of Seville oranges. Oil of olives, of each an ounce. Syrup of meconium, two ounces. Make it a limfius.. As topical applications are extremely neceffary to remove the pain, and difcufs the infpiffated fluids, the reader is here prefented with various forms which have proved efficacious,’ though perhaps a veficatory on the part pained, is as eligible as any of them. Take of Volatile fpirit of fait ammoniac. Oil of olives, of each half an ounce. Make