Medulla medicinae universae, or, a new compendious dispensatory. Compiled at the command of His Royal Highness the Duke, for the use of the military hospital abroad, during the late war. By the King's physicians and surgeons, the surgeon-general, and apothecary-general, to the Army. To which is added, an English translation, with a comment subjoined to each prescription / By John Theobald, M.D.

  • Theobald, John, -1760.
Date:
1756
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Credit: Medulla medicinae universae, or, a new compendious dispensatory. Compiled at the command of His Royal Highness the Duke, for the use of the military hospital abroad, during the late war. By the King's physicians and surgeons, the surgeon-general, and apothecary-general, to the Army. To which is added, an English translation, with a comment subjoined to each prescription / By John Theobald, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DIRECTIONS. CONCERNING | BLEEDING. F Aut the Remedies Recurred to in Relieving the Difeafed Part of Man- kind, there are None of Such General Service and Advantage, as That of BLEEDING; as there is No one, on the other hand, Attended with: more Pernicious Confequences, when Indirectly _ and Injudicioufly Ordered. A Number - of Illneffes are Abfolutely Owing to too “Great a Quantity of Blood ; in which Cafes there is Ever of courfe an Indifpen- fable Neceffity for Proportionably Drain- ing This Fluid. Though, in the Pre- ceding Work, there is Pointed out a Va- riety of Occafions,- where Venzfection is This or That Particular Medicine ; yet, ~ perhaps, it may be no Difagreeable Tafk, I Perform, in the Opinion of the Gene- aye? rality