Volume 4

The rational practice of physic of William Rowley, M. D. member of the University of Oxford, the Royal College of Physicians in London, and physician to the St. Mary-Le-Bone Infirmary, &c. &c. : in four volumes.

  • Rowley, William, 1742-1806.
Date:
1793
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Credit: The rational practice of physic of William Rowley, M. D. member of the University of Oxford, the Royal College of Physicians in London, and physician to the St. Mary-Le-Bone Infirmary, &c. &c. : in four volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    HUXHAM. Dr. Huxham recommends vomits, and light purgatives of rhubarb. A volatile faline mixture. The pulvis contrayerv. compofit. with nitre in a bolus, if the fever ran high. In adults, nvo grains of camphor were added on the fecond or third day to the faline mixture; a temperate cordial might be added, and a little tindtura corticis Peruvian!. Elixir of vitriol and tindiure of bark were commonly ordered on the Jifih VinA Jixth days. Sir JOHN PRINGLE. Sir John Pringle (diith, I lay the chief flrefs of cure in the angina maligna^ on the ufe of a gargle compofed of barley water, or fagc tea, '. mel rc^larum, and vinegar. Sir WILLIAM FORDYCE. Sir William Fordyce juflly condemns bleeds ing, and aflerts, that haemorrhages from the nofc do not relieve the patient. ' * Emptying the