A treatise of the asthma. Divided into four parts / [by John Floyer].

  • Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734.
Date:
1717
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Credit: A treatise of the asthma. Divided into four parts / [by John Floyer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cij) f- tried Extracted EcphraElicum at Night, and at other times Vitriolum Martis diflolved in Milk-Water ; and a very fevere Fit difcoura- ged my farther Ufe of Steel. I often Vomited, Bled, Purged in the In¬ tervals ; but found no Relief by any of thefe Methods. None of the preceding Methods would fucceed, but encreafed the Severity of my Fits. At laft I vomited once in a Month ; I took fix Ounces of the Cortex infufed in Wine ; and after that, three Ounces of Am- momacum diflolved in Oxymels. This Method relieved me for three or four Months in the Winter; but at laft proved unfuccefsful, and the Fits returned as bad as ever. I drank Afles^Milk, which encreafed my Phlegm, and flopp’d up my Lungs. Next Summer I drank the Waters at Bath, where indeed I had no Fit; but they returned feverely when I came home. % I found I had read moft of the Modem Writers, and hitherto had tried their Methods, and hot Pedorals, and Cephalics in vain: I believed, by my ill Succefs in theiir way, that they never underftood this Difeafe ; and therefore turned over feme of the Old’ Wri¬ ters, Galen, ALgineta, JEtius^ (iiY. where I found more rational Notions ,• and was dire- (fted by them to the Ufe of that Medicine which does very much relieve and prevent my Fits; of which I will hereafter give an Account. ‘ t