Volume 2

A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are ... described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage. And symptom thereof ... : the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham ... / by Peter Shaw.

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
Date:
1745
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Credit: A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are ... described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage. And symptom thereof ... : the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham ... / by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the time of the fuppreflion. ’Tis found that fat women, and fuch as ufe violent exercife, may fuffer this obftru6tion without injury. 5. Moderate exercife is proper, being ufed Regimen, about the return of the periods. When there is a vifcidity of the juices, fpoon-meats and broths are ufeful. Sleep ought to be moderate, becaufe by increafing perfpiration it retards the flux. Whatever is taken as aliment in this cafe, ought to be warm. ■» 6. Two things are principally to be regarded with refpedt to the cure ; viz. firlt, to deltroy the vifcidity or lentor of the blood, or leflfen its quantity, if there be a plethora *, and idly, to remove the obftrudling caufe, or relax the canals thro’ which the expedled evacuation is to be made. In all obfl;fu6lions of the menfes, therefore, plilebotomy appears to be neceflfary. But ’tis generally thought mofl: ferviceable when per¬ formed in the faphena vein. Cupping-glaflTes alfo are thought ferviceable, applied with fcarifica- tion. Such kind of evacuations may be made at any. time, during the cure, though they are mofl: efficacious towards the beginning thereof j and efpecially if ufed about the ilated period of the , flux. Nor ought phlebotomy ever to be omitted before the exhibition of the chalybeates ^ or whatever elfe increafes the velocity or momentum of the blood. 7. Cathartics are proper after phlebotomy ; and may be given in the following manner. R Fil.fcetid. extract, rudij aad]. tartar, vitriol, fal tartar, da gr, v. ol. fuccin. gut. i. jyr. de fpina cervin. f. plul. v. fro dofi. Or, R Fil. ex diioh. 5 B. calomel. 3 B. horac. fal. volat. fuccin. dagr.Y].ol.fabin. gut. i].f.f ilul, fumat 'i]. hora fomni fs? reliquas diluculo^ cum regi- E e 3 nnne^