Volume 1

Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page].

  • Page, John, 1699?-1779
Date:
1763
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Credit: Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Neverthelefs, (to deal Candidly, in all Refpe&s) I mud confefs that it is not advifeable, according to my Information, to adminfter thefe Pills in Cafes wherein the Yifcera or Inwards are judged to be unfound. I have faid a great deal upon thefe Pills; and more, perhaps, than may be thought Prudent^ tho9 True: But as my View is, what I at firft pro- fefled, to promote the common Good of Mankind ? the Object is too great, and I am too much in Ear- Fieft in the Purfuit, to fupprefs Truth ; or my Opi¬ nion, founded upon Truth; although the Cau¬ tious may impeach my Underflanding ; and the Interefted may Ridicule it. The Drop, fo called, (though not with ftrid Propriety, as appears from the Manner of pre¬ paring it) has been ufually given in Diforders oc- eafioned by foul Stomachs, and Indigeftion. It generally operates as an Emetick, as it did with me; yet, fometirnes, it moves both ways; as does the Pill. They both make the Patient Sick, very much like Sea-Sicknefs, for a fhort time be¬ fore the Difcharge, if upwards, and the Stomach be loaded with a great quantity of very foul Mat¬ ter ; but not otherwife. If the Stomach be thus foul, the putting the Matter into Motion muft Occafiori Sicknds, in proportion to its Quantity, and Quality; but it came from me, and I have feen it do the fame in Others, with more Eafe? and lefs Straining than is oceafioned by the Erne ticks ufualiy given. With this Medicine it is not neceffory to drink ferge Quantities, to Gorge the Stomach. Half a Pint Whereas thefe Pills neither fufFer by Time, nor thofe Altera¬ tions; and there is fcarcc a Remedy applicable to fo many Dif¬ orders; as is Sufficiently evinced by the Cafes above-mentioned: At the fame Time that the Cheapnefs ,#f them will render an Experiment very eafy, to Seafaring Men.