Trallianus reviviscens: or, an account of Alexander Trallian ... Being a supplement to Dr. Freind's History of physick. In a letter to ... Sir Hans Sloane / [Edward Milward].

  • Milward, Edward, 1712?-1757
Date:
1734
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    I 0 Sir Hans oloane. i 09 Body. In cafe there be no fever^ he re¬ commends Milk, in which heated fei^ Iks^ or hot Irons have been quench’d, which as experience teaches, will leave a great Stypticity behind them. He or. ders afiringent Fomentations to the Belly, and among other things, Wool dip’d in Oyl that has equal Quantities of Cummin and Smallage 6’eed mix’d with it, which, he fays, will encreafe the urinary Secretion, and fo leflcn the ^ Diarrhoea by making a Diverfiw of ^ the Humours that way {u). He ad- vifes the Ufe of the warm Bath too, and the fprinkling of Nitrum UJlum upon the Skin, as likewife the anoint¬ ing it withOj/, oat to fiimidate^ and the other to widen and (dlate the Pores of it, that by encreafing the Difcharge through the Cutictdar, Thar by the In- tejlinal Glands may be leiTen’d. All which is founded on the Doftrine of Revulfion; and with the very fame View (u) Kcti ^ 'TD Zoov W pdjiJ^Tlcruk Edit^ Guint. p* 425. injine*