A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt. : Easily known from all counterfeits by its bitter taste. / Written originally in Latin, by Nehemiah Grew, Doctor in Physick, Fellow of the College of Physicians and of the Royal Society. And done into English.

  • Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712.
Date:
printed in the year 1700
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Credit: A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt. : Easily known from all counterfeits by its bitter taste. / Written originally in Latin, by Nehemiah Grew, Doctor in Physick, Fellow of the College of Physicians and of the Royal Society. And done into English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J ■—:- and then lee the imtlure be ftrongly preffiJ out, and (land, till the muddy Parts being fe led? it becomes clear. CHAP. VI. Of the Ufe of the Bitter Purging Sait in fa other Difeafes. in Mother-Fits. IN which cafe, after the more grievous Sym toms are allay’d by the ufe of Opiates *, te or twelve Drachms, or two Ounces of tl TtnBttra Sacra (made with two parts of Whiti 3vinei and one part of Hyjlerick Water f ) may 1 given, for the moft part, with good fuccefs. . But if the Phyfician fees it convenient to gh a more temperate Purge * that fo often cor mended, in regard it works fo gently, may 11 fafelv drunk : and with the greater Benefit, inffead of Maced Water the Purging Salt be di Iblv’d either in the Spaw water, or that of Bawn> In the Wand ring Gout. Which is commonly, but erroneoufly, calk a Rhmmatifm. For that this falls upon the Mm th? of Opiates.] The Englifti Reader is here a<i snonifhed to be very wary in mediiog with this fore of Ml dicines, whether liquid or folid. A Dofe containing a Gran or a Grain and half of Opium, not to be exceeded, withoi fpeciaF- Occafion and Direction, f Hyftericl^ Water,'] Gocnponnded Water in the Union Viftenfatory* cull