Observations on the nature and treatment of the variolous abscess with remarks on the modern practice of inoculation, and a review of the principal writers on that important subject / by Peter Clare.

  • Clare, Peter, 1738-1786.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Observations on the nature and treatment of the variolous abscess with remarks on the modern practice of inoculation, and a review of the principal writers on that important subject / by Peter Clare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    pies, greens, roots, and vegetables of all the kinds in feafon, prepared or raw. Eggs, though not to be eaten alone, are allowed in puddings, and butter in pie cruft, and patients are advifed to be careful not to over-load their ftomachs, even with this kind of food.’' After proceeding in this manner about 9 or io days before the opera- tion, they are directed to take “ three dofes of the following powder, ei- ther made into pills, or mixed with a little fyrup or jelly, at bed-time; and a dofe of Glauber s falts diffolved in thin water gruel, each fucceed- ing morning. The powder is com- pofed of eight grains of calomel* the fame quantity of the compound powder of crabs claws, and one- eighth part of a grain of emetic tartar.” Baron