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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    In /anguine habits. And cacheSli- cal habits. mine., fern el ^ el his in feptimana^ ad quatuor vel quin- que vices. 8. Or about the time of their expedled return, R Calomel, gr. xv. conferv. rofar. ruhr. q. f. f.pi- lulah.f. fumend.& manefequenttfumat bolumjequent. R Pulv.jalap. fanbt. da 9j. tartar, vitriol.gr.v]. ol. puleg. gut. ij. fyr. de fpina cervin. q. f. f. bolus. ♦ Or, RP/7. ruffi. Jlomach. cum gum. da^y refin.ja- lap. gr. V. borac. fal. fuccin. volat. da gf. vj. fyr. de fpina cervina q. f. f. pilule n^.Y]. pro doji. R Pindl. facr^ ^ ii£. elix. propriet. tindi. caftor. myrrh, da 5 j. aq. hyfteric. § m.f. haujlus^ mane fumend. pro re nata repetend. ’Tistobe noted, that tho’ mercurials are very proper to remove almoft all forts of obftrudtions, yet they ought not here to be continued fo long, or given in fuch dofes, as to raife a ptyalifmus, till other medicines have been tried without fuccefs. 9. In fanguine conftitutions, the following purg¬ ing potion may be of more fervice than the former. BiFol.fen. 5 iij. rad. ellebor. nigr. rad. rhabarb. fern, fanicul. dulc. daf]. fal. tartar. 5^. coque in aq. puleg. § vj. colatur^ 5 iij. adde fyrup. de fpin. cervin. 5 vj. fal. volat. oleof. gut. 40. tinbl. cajior, sj- If occafion indicate, a calomel bolus may be given antecedent thereto. 10. Hyfterical perfons, or fuch as are troubled with a cachexia and indigeftion, cannot well bear repeated cathartics in w^hich cafe an emetic may be very iifeful; and when other medicines have proved unfuccefsful in removing thefe obftrudlions, that has often anf^ver’d. In athletic conftitutions, the vinum emeticum may be given in the quantity of fix drams •, but in thofe of a more tender habit, the pulvjs rad. ipecacuanh. is more proper *, being taken along with carduus tea, or the like.