Formulae medicamentorum, or, a compendium of the modern practice of physic. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / by Hugh Smith.

  • Smith, Hugh, 1730?-1790.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Formulae medicamentorum, or, a compendium of the modern practice of physic. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / by Hugh Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ M4 1 ■ DISEASES of-WOMEN. Obstructed Menses. IT has been a.received opinion, that many of the difeafes of women are owing to a fuppreflion of the menfes; but it may perhaps be doubted, whether this wiH fo often prove the caufc as the confequence of other difeafes; as in general, for the reniovalof obftrui^ions, we have little moFe'to do than to remedy the particular indifpofition of b6dy under which the patient may labour. Hence, different and oppofite methods of cure will be required, ac- cording to the habit of body and nature of the fymptoms. In general, a deficient mehftrual excretion will depend upon a plethdra, a glutinous pi-n tuitous difpofition of the humours, and a flow and languid circulation ; or a contradlion of the uterine vefiels, from cold or any other occafional caufe. If a plethora fhould have proved the occa- fion, it may be neceflary to d^aw blood, and to order medicines of the aftenuating and gently-purging'kinds. The tindlura melam- podii has been greatly recommended by Dr. Mead for thefe purpofes, and^may be given to advantage from ^ij. to ^ three or four times every day. But,