The modern practice of the London hospitals. Viz. St. Bartholomew's, St. Thomas's, St. George's, and Guy's. Containing exact copies of the receipts, and a particular account of the different methods of cure.

Date:
1766
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Credit: The modern practice of the London hospitals. Viz. St. Bartholomew's, St. Thomas's, St. George's, and Guy's. Containing exact copies of the receipts, and a particular account of the different methods of cure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / & 38 PrACTICE OF mer. . Take a f{cruple of conferve of rofemary, and and has been frequently experienced of fervice, in many nervous and hifterical complaints. powder, of each a feruple; falt of wormwood, five grains; and make them into a bolus with the fimple fyrup. This fhould be taken three times in a day, and is good in hifterical affections, and is of manifeft fervice in ripening the fmall-pox, efpecially that fort where the puftules rife with a pellucid humour. Take half a drachm of fpermaceti, a fcruple of Tragacanth powder, and mix them into a bolus with the fimple fyrup,— Which may be taken three times in a day. | Aftringent Pe&oral Bolus. Take of the fcordium electuary, and tragacanth powder, each half adrachm; and make them into. a bolus with fyrup of white poppy headss;—which may be taken twice in a day, » . Purging Bolus. Take fifteen grains of gamboge, ten grains of cream of tartar, five grains of powdered gingers and make into.a bolus with the fimple fyrup. In Drepfical babits this is a very common, and a very good purge; for it thoroughly purges off watry and vifcous humours, and greatly promotes. the difcharge by urine: but to render the cure of a. droply L