A familiar treatise on rheumatism, and rheumatic affections : in which a popular view of these distressing maladies, their causes, symptoms, and methods of cure are so clearly arranged, that any person of common understanding may safely prescribe therefrom, principally by the use of domestic means.

  • Hickman, William, of Henley-on-Thames.
Date:
[1815?]
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Credit: A familiar treatise on rheumatism, and rheumatic affections : in which a popular view of these distressing maladies, their causes, symptoms, and methods of cure are so clearly arranged, that any person of common understanding may safely prescribe therefrom, principally by the use of domestic means. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    io pfimafy causes exist to counteract theWi, zrtd this should be done before the disease has time to set fast hold on the cotistitutiori. This* fever which 'arises nibstly frbni ob- structed perspiration, and its consequences, hkd colds> arid inattention or neglect of them, miSst be trelated like other fevers of the in- flammatory kind ; viz. by bldedirig arid open- ing drinks; which any apothecaryj who is called in to bleed, will be able to' make up in proper doses. A cooling diluting drink, either of sweet or vinegar whey, should be drank in large quantities, and the patient may be indulged with stewed prunes, coddled apples, and well-ripened summer fruits. Nitre is an excellent Medicine in this disor- der, arid if the stomach can bear it, may be given liberally, and more especially when j din^'^ with camphor. Itlie sick, therefore, with bleeding should take half a dram of nitre with a quarter of a dram of camphor twice a day, in a pint of smt)b'thl)biled w^^ter