A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints, scurvy, leprosy, & scrofula : also on a certain disease, seminal weakness ... to which is added an address ... on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818.
Date:
[1804?]
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Credit: A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints, scurvy, leprosy, & scrofula : also on a certain disease, seminal weakness ... to which is added an address ... on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If they flow too abundantly, and produce a flood- ing, the patient must be kept as much as possible at rest, with her head low, until the medicine has had time to take efTect. Let her diet be spare, but not too lax :—The following will be of great service : Take conserve of roses, an ounce ; astringent saf- fron of iron, two drachms ; and oil of cinnamon, six drops. Mix these into an electuary (which may be made up by an apothecary, if the recipe be sent him) and take the quantity of a large, nutmeg every day at noon, for six, eight or ten days, or longer, as the urgency of the case may require, drinking-immediately after it one table spoonful of the Cordial Balm of Gilead in a wine glassful of warm water : the flood- ing, by this means, will gradually abate, the feverish symptoms will go off, the back, will be strengthened, the womb-vessels cleansed, and the patient wonder- fully restored. After the tenth day, in most cases, the electuary may be discontinued, and the Cordial Balm of Gilead, from two tea-spoonfuls, to one table- spoonful and a half, taken according to the constitu- tion of the patient, to prevent a relapse. It is evident that the intention of nature in re- turning this flux back into the habit, is to 'nourish and preserve life, not to destroy it.—Until the age of puberty, girls require this blood for the sustenation and nourishment of their bodies; when that is sufficiently established, it is applied to the purpose of nourishing the foetus, and of suckling the infant. When child- bearing subsides, and the eve of life comes on, the flux is returned back to comfort and preserve it; there-