Rev. John Wesley's valuable primitive remedies, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases : also, Modern medicine / by O.W. Gordon.

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Rev. John Wesley's valuable primitive remedies, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases : also, Modern medicine / by O.W. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    %i Or, make six middling pills of cobwebs. Take one a little before the cold fit; two a little before the next fit, (suppose the next day;) the other three, if need be, a little before the third fit. This seldom fails. Or, put a teaspoonful of salt of tartar into a large glass of spring water, and drink it by little and little; repeat the same dose the next two days before the time of the fit. Or, two small teaspoonful of sal prunella an hour before the fit. It commonly cures in thrice taking. Or, a large spoonful of powdered camomile flowers. Or, a tea-spoonful of spirits of hartshorn in a glass of water- Or, eat a small lemon, rind and all. In the hot fit, if violent, take eight or ten drops of laud- anum; if costive, in hiera picra. (A preparation of aloes.) Doctor Lind says, an ague is certainly cured by taking from ten to twenty drops of laudnum, with two drachms of syrup of poppies, in any warm liquid, half an hour after the heat begins. It is proper to take a gentle vomit, and sometimes a purge, before you use any of these medicines. If a vomit is taken two hours before the fit is expected, it generally prevents that .fit, and sometimes cures an ague, especially in children. It is also proper to repeat the medicine (whatever it be) about a week after, in order to prevent a relapse. Do not take any purge soon after. The daily use of the flesh brush, and frequent cold bathing, are of great use to prevent relapses. Children have been frequently cured by wearing a waist- vcoat in which bark was quilted.* * Peruvian Bark.