An essay on the diseases of the head and neck. To which is added, a dissertation on the gout and rheumatism / [J.N. Stevens].

  • Stevens, J. N
Date:
1758
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Credit: An essay on the diseases of the head and neck. To which is added, a dissertation on the gout and rheumatism / [J.N. Stevens]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The vicidity and acrimony of the mafs of fluids may be attenuated and corredted with a Arid regimen of white meats, milk, and vegetables, join’d with the ufe of the fol- . lowing medicines. Take of gum ammoniac, opoponax, of each two drachms; arum root frefli powder’d three drachms; Venice foap and myrrh, of each one drachm; balfam peru, quantity fuffi- cient; mix, for pills. Out of every drachm of the mafs make ten pills. Take five pills three times a day, drink¬ ing after them four fpoonfuls of the following mixture. . • ' Take fait of wormwood a drachm and a half; juice of lemons two ounces ; mix, and add baum and penny-royal waters, of each four ounces ; antimonial wine an ounce and half; fyrup of orange peels an ounce; mix. Thefe medicines will likewife be found very benificial for the head-ach, lethargy, and carus, efpecially when pre¬ ceded by emetics and aloetic purges. | % Chap-