Pharmacopœia Meadiana: faithfully gathered from original prescriptions, containing the most elegant methods of cure in diseases. To which are annexed useful observations upon each prescription : the whole digested under proper heads / [Richard Mead].

  • Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.
Date:
1757-1758
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Credit: Pharmacopœia Meadiana: faithfully gathered from original prescriptions, containing the most elegant methods of cure in diseases. To which are annexed useful observations upon each prescription : the whole digested under proper heads / [Richard Mead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chiflels, with various ether Inftru- ments: which are not only ex¬ tremely painful to the Patient, but likewile expofe his Life to great Hazard ; and are moreover, in my Opinion, far from doing any Ho¬ nour to Thofe, who ufe them. ! Nature’s being contented with a Little, is an Axiom, that not only relpedls the Retrenching of Super¬ fluities in regard of the real Exi¬ gencies of Life ; but may alfo be extended to the Management, which thele Kinds of Wounds, generally fpeaking, only ftand in Need of. T o put this Matter in as clear a Light as poflible, we will fup- pofe a Ball to be lodged in any Part,