Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, principally with regard to its diuretic quality, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries : Together with some observations, on the use of clysters of tobacco, in the treatment of the colic / by Thomas Fowler.

Date:
1785
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Credit: Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, principally with regard to its diuretic quality, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries : Together with some observations, on the use of clysters of tobacco, in the treatment of the colic / by Thomas Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Night, is of a natural Colour : his Body is regularly open, and A.ppetite good. He has ufed no Medicines, ex- cept three Dofes of purging Phyfic, from which he has received no Relief. The Swellings came on without any apparent Caufe, about five Months ago. Ordered to take at Bed time,a Pill of Jive grains of Calomel, and in the Morning, a purging Draught, of half an Ounce of Glauber s Salts, diffolved in two Ounces of the Infufion of Sena, half an Ounce of the TinBure of Senu being added to the Solu- tion, April loth. He has had eight or ten Stools from the Pill, and Draught ; but the Swel- lings of his Legs are not diminifhed. Ordered to take in an Ounce of Water, fifteen Drops of an Infufion of Tobacco t to morrow Morning, twenty two at four in the Afternoon, and thirty at Night going to bed, April t Infufura Nicotians. No. r.