Primitive physick: or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases. To which is added, the general receipt book, containing ... receipts [in every branch of science ... with directions for making British wines ... / By H. Gifford].

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Date:
1847
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Credit: Primitive physick: or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases. To which is added, the general receipt book, containing ... receipts [in every branch of science ... with directions for making British wines ... / By H. Gifford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fit, and would often prevent a consumption. Sea Extract from Dr. Tissot, page 33. 50. Convulsions. Use the cold bath. Or take a tea-spoonful of valerian root powdered, in a cup of water every evening. Or, half a drachm of misselto powdered, every six hours, drinking after it a draught of strong in- fusion thereof. V ■ 51.. Convulsions in Children. Scrape piony roots fresh digged. Apply what you have scraped off to the soles of the feet. It helps immediately.—Tried. 52. Convulsions in the Bowf.ls of Children. Give a child a quarter old, a spoonful of the juice of pellitory of the wall, two or three times a-day ; it goes through at once, but purges no more. Use the syrup if the juice cannot be had. 53. Corns, (to prevent.) Frequently wash the feet in cold water. 54. Corns, (to cure.) Apply fresh, every morning, the yeast of small beer spread on a rag. Or, after paring them close, apply bruised ivy- leaves daily, and in fifteen days they will dropoiit. —Tried. Or, apply chalk powdered and mixed with water. This also cures warts. Some corns are cured by a pitch plaister.