The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of private families, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D. ; to which is annexed, Mr. Wesley's Primitive physic, revised.

  • Wilkins, Henry, 1767-1847.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of private families, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D. ; to which is annexed, Mr. Wesley's Primitive physic, revised. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    patient becomes frequently fainty, and is not able to take any thing beiides. Lemonade may be ufed, when wine and water caanot be given for the fever ; and when lemons cannot be got, vinegar and -water, or cy- der and water. Cure. Bleeding, though it may fometimes be pro- per, as when the patient is of a more robuft habit, and better conftitution than what is defcribed above, and when he has been accuftomed to bleeding, and withal the pulie and pain are not low; yet even then, it fliould be ufed fpanngly and caiuioufly, and in ninety- cafes out of one hundred, it would be injurious to bleed. In the beginning it will be proper to give ten or twelve grains of ipecacuana, or a tea-ipoonful of antimonial wine, every fifteen minutes until it ope- rates ; a bliiter may be put on at the fame time, as near as pofiible to the pain ; the puke may be repeat- ed once or twice if neceflary, and fometimes it will be neceflary to lay on another blifter dole by the for- mer ; twenty grains of jalap, or thirty grains of rhu- barb, or a table-fpoonful of caftor oil, or what is bet- ter than all, four or five grains of calomel, may be ufed to remove any coftivenefs that is prefent: this ihould be attended to throughout. For the cough, two drams of gum ammoniac, dif- folved by trituration in a mortar, with half a pint of water, may be given ; one table-fpoonful every hour : or an ounce of iyrup (commonly called oxymel) of fquills in as much water, may be given in the fame way. Seneca fnake root tea may be ufed if they cannot be procured ; to either of thefe medicines at night a do- zen drops of laudanum may be added, in order to al- lay the cough, that the patient may reft ; and if the cough is very frequent in the day, a few drops may be taken every now and then. Towards the end when the patient grows weak, he fliould ufe about fixty diups of elixir of vitriol a-day, and ufe a decodics of bark or fome good bitters. Great