Primitive physic : or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases: / By J. Wesley.

  • John Wesley
Date:
1807
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    three ounces of the juice of fow-thidle, or of groundfel, or of the greater houfe-leek, or of borrage. * No. 8. To one ounce of oxymel of fquills, add five ounces of a ftrong infufion of elder-flowers. No. 9. Fomentations and Poultices. I here are very different emollient applications which have nearly the fame virtues. The following are the mod efficacious. 1. Flannels wrung out of a hot dccoflion of mal- low-flowers. 2. Small bags filled with mallow-flowers, or with thofe of elder, or camomile, or of wild corn poppy, and boiled either in milk or water. 3. Poultices of the lame flowers boiled in milk and water. 4. A poultice of boiled bread and milk, f No. 10. To one ounce of fpirit of fulphur, add fix ounces of fyrup of violets; or, for want of the latter, as much barley water, of a thicker confidence than ordinary. No. 11. A Purge. Take two ounces of manna, and half an ounce of Ep- fom fait; diffolving them in four ounces of hot water, and draining them. No. 12. A Ptifan. Take of elder flowers one pugil, of hyfiop leaves as much. Pour three pints of boiling water upon them. After infufing fome time, drain, and diffolve three ounces of honey in the infuiion. * Thefe juices are to be procured from the herbs when frefli and very young, if poffible, by beating them in a marble mor- tar, or for want of luch in a wooden or iron one, and then fqueezing out the juice thro’ a linen bag. It mud be left to fet- tle a little in an earthern veffel, after which the clear juice mud be decanted gently off, and the fediment left behind. 1 f Boiled nettles are bed of all. No. 13.
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