The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of families who have not the advantages of a physician, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D. ; to which is annexed Mr. Wesley's Primitive physic, revised.

  • Wilkins, Henry, 1767-1847.
Date:
1795
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Credit: The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of families who have not the advantages of a physician, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D. ; to which is annexed Mr. Wesley's Primitive physic, revised. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vies (hops) for two or three nights, lying then between blankets. If any pain ftill continues, it may be looked upon as verging to chronic rheumatifm, and the fol- lowing may be given : one hundred drops of vola- tile tindlure of guaiacum, in a little water, three times a-day. In general nothing can be done that will be of fer- vice as an outward application ; however, a little Caltik foap, difTolved in water, may be ufed to fatisfy. In {lighter cafes the bleeding may be omitted, and the falts with a common fweat of feneca tea ufed. CHAP. XXIII. CHRONIC RHEUMATISM. THE former difeafe is apt to terminate in this ; efpecially when the patient is advanced in years : Cold is the common cmfe of it. Symptoms. A pain of fome of the joints, or about the junction of the bones, with a itiffnefs of the part. No redntfs or fwelling like that from inflammation affecls the part, though after a long continuance, an enlargement of the joints is apt to take place. Lit- tle or no fever attends here, heat ldTens the pain, and cold inereafes it; quite contrary to what takes place in the preceding complaint. When the pains fix about the fmall of the back, the affection is termed a Lumbago ; when about the hip, in which cafe the patient becomes fomewhat lame, a.Sciatica. Management. The part affected, ifpoffible, mould he conilantly wrapt in flannel, the patient fnould ufe wine with any f^-od he may chufe, which will agree with his ilomaeh. Cure. Ninety drops of volatile tincture of guaiacum,! /hould be taken in a little water, four times a-day ; if this does not anfwer, the following pills may be ufed till they produce fome effect ; twelve grains of calomel and twelve grains of opium, to be raack into one do- P 2 zen