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Medulla medicinae universae: or, a new compendious dispensatory. Compiled at the command of His Royal Highness the Duke, for the use of the military hospital abroad, during the late war / By the King's physicians and surgeons, the surgeon-general, and apothecary-general, to the Army.

  • Theobald, John, -1760.
Date:
1752
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medulla medicinae universae: or, a new compendious dispensatory. Compiled at the command of His Royal Highness the Duke, for the use of the military hospital abroad, during the late war / By the King's physicians and surgeons, the surgeon-general, and apothecary-general, to the Army. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    { 42] Tt muft alfo be here obferved, that a proper Regimen in refpedt of Diet will not a little cor tribute to a Cure. Every thing falt, high-feafon- ed, and heating muft be refolutely avoided ; and, inftead of ftrong and fpirituous Liquors, the Patient muft content himfelf with Liquids of the cooling Kind, fuch as fmall Tea, Emulfions, or Barley-Water. The Dofe of the above Eletary is a Dram and a Half Night and Morning. Should this Quantity give more than four Stools, the Dofe muft be leffened ; if not fo many, increafed. | N. B. When there is a Cordee in the Cafe, and a troublefom Senfation in. the Urinary Canal, with an almoft continual Provocation to make water, (which is often tinged with Blood) it will be altogether neceflary, befides the Ufe of this Remedy, to recur to Bleeding, for the Removal of thofe Irritations, and to the Affiftance of Laudanum: twenty Drops of which are to be taken at bed-time in feme pro- per Liquid, andto be repeated as Circumftances may require. Mercurial Ointment alfo fhould be rubbed in at the fame time the whole Length of the Urethra ; and, from the Beginning to the End of the Difeafe, the Part affected wathed