Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: or, a body of medicines / Done into English out of Latin by the author ... with large additions.

  • Fuller, Thomas, 1654-1734
Date:
1740
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: or, a body of medicines / Done into English out of Latin by the author ... with large additions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pient with Oil of Vitriol, and know not how I mifcarried, for I could perceive no Effervefcence at all. % Diuretic 5Hci5 D?augfjt* 'Take Horfe-radijh Water compound 1 Ounce and half\ Brandy, Juice of Lemons, each half an Ounce; Syrup of Violets 1 Ounce; It takes away Thirft, tempers Choler, cor¬ rects the Acrimony of Salts, refrigerates, fufes, liquifies the Blood, and makes it ihed off its Se¬ rum plentifully: It cuts, attenuates, and fcours off flimey Phlegm, provokes Urine, and evacu¬ ates Gravel and Sand. It's proper where there's a hot Scorbutic Con- ftitution, a febrile Difpofition, and where either vifcid or gravelly Pituita flicking in the Kid¬ neys or Bladder (without Inflammation or Ul¬ cer) hinders the Courfe of the Urine. A total Suppreflion of Urine not caufed by Stone, Mucus, Caruncle, or any Thing obftru¬ tting the Urinary Paffages; but by the Blood’s being fo confufed as to it's Parts, and fo lock'd up as to its Texture, that it cannot let its Aquo- fity go from it; Obfervations of which Cafe we have in Rivers, Willisy and Sylvius; and I my- felf have met with three, and plainly defcry’d it by this, that no Pain, either in the Loins or Pukes, preceded, and the Bladder (by Proof of the Catheter) had no Urine in it. ' <Th is remarkable, and (if not timely helped) mortal ObftruCtion, hath fometimes been re¬ moved, by giving very liberally, in large Quan¬ tities of Water, Oil of Vitriol, or Spirit of Njtre. And I judge* more Certainty of Succefs might