Volume 1

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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    7. A vomitings attended with melancholy^ is>Vomitingnvith not unfrequent at fea-, and ufually proceeds an immoderate ufe of fpirituous liquors. In this cafe an emetic of ipecacuanha ought firft to be ex¬ hibited, and then a cathartic of the deco5l. amar, cum fen. or tin5t. facra *, and after repeating it once or twice, the teftaceous powders may be fuccefsful, given with water-gruel inftead of milk *, but in cafe of melancholy, they may be given in form of an eleduary, thus: R Pulv. coral, rubr. margarit. ppt. gum. arabic. 3 ij. conferv. flaved. aurant. ^ j. ol. cinnam. gut. v]. fyr. caryophyl. q.ff elebluarium-., de quo capiat quant, n. m. majoris ter in die^ cum cochlear, quatuor infufion. alicujus amar. 8. Cojiivenefs IS a very common diftemper ^^Cofli^enefs. fea *, and always happens to fuch as have not been accuftom’d to fait-water provifions nor are ma¬ ny even of thole who have long ufed the fea, free from it: as being the unavoidable confequence of their ufual way of living. The' cure depends upon giving laxative clyfters or gentle cathartics occafionally, as mentioned in the article of coftivenefs. See pag 213, ^c. 9. A calenture is likewife frequent at fea. Calenture. calenture is meant a fever attended with a deli¬ rium ; whence the patient often imagines he fdes fome pleafant, cool verdure near at hand, on which he attempts to walk, and fo would fall into the fea, if not prevented. The caufe of this fymptom is generally fuppofed to be a plethora or vifcidity of the juices. The perfon thus affedled has a fierce look, is very unruly, and at the fame time fo eager to get over-board to the imaginary green fields, and fo ftrong, that fometimes fix men are fcarce fufficient to detain him. This fymptom generally happens in the night time, and feems to be molt frequent about