The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body. Including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D.

  • Elliot, John, 1747-1787.
Date:
1791
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Credit: The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body. Including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftimulatLng medicines, as valerian, caftor, muf- tard, fal c. c. horfe-radifh, &c. And muftard, or other warm ftimulating application rubbed into the parts; and to that part of the fpina from whence the nerves ferving the part iffue. Elec- tricity and dry frictions are good, as are alfp. chalybeate, and Bath or Briftol waters- PEARLS. Abforbent ^j ad gj.. PECTORALS. Elix. pareg. 31F. ad 5). Pulv. e tragac. c. 9J. ad 3J. Pil. de ftyrace gr. v. ad gj. Oxymel fcillitic. jff. Troch. bechic. cecoft. pea. M libitum. PEEL. Sec Bark. PERIPNEUMONY, or inflammation of the Lungs. Symptoms. Difficult breathing, with op- preflion and feeming load at the breaft j the- breath hot, cough, fever, rednefs in the face, pulfe fometimes hardly perceptible, but after bleeding, ftrong, but unequal. Differs from a Pleurify in the cough being more moift, the pain lefs acute, nor the pulfe fo ftrong. Treatment. Bleed repeatedly, if neceffary ;. and give nitre, with fpermaceti, or ol. amygd. fal. c. c. gentle antimonials, or the like. Cooling -emollient clyfters are ufeful, as are alfo bliftering wd cuppins- PERIPNETOONY-