Remarks on sea-water; with observations on its application and effects, internally and externally ... / [Charles Taylor].

  • Taylor, Charles
Date:
1805
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Credit: Remarks on sea-water; with observations on its application and effects, internally and externally ... / [Charles Taylor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Where a nausea occurs after drinking salt water, a little candid citron or lemon peel may be eaten, to correct its unplea¬ sant flavour. My friend Dr. Werner, of Friburg, has so high an opinion of the efficacy of candied citron, that he recom¬ mends its general use in all unpleasant affections of the stomach, not attended with inflammation. Where the sea-water does not pass off easily, it may be assisted by any of the purgative medicines to which the patient is accustomed. Sea-water is an excellent purgative in Paralytic Complaints, also in Disorders of the Urinary Passages, and in the early stages of consumption in children.—From ten to twenty drops of nitrous aether, or dulcified spirits of nitre, taken with sea¬ water, or after it, will assist its action in the urinary vessels. *