Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley.

  • John Wesley
Date:
1858
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Credit: Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    num, or an eighth of a grain of morphine, or a poppy tea, or one made of lettuce, should be taken. If the bleeding is profu.se, cloths wet in cold water, or a piece of ice should be applied to the genital parts. A tea made of Walnut leaves is as good as the extract named by Mr. Wesley, to prevent the abortion, and is of a tonic and strengthening nature. It' the miscarriage has proceeded so far that it must take place, a table spoonful of a strong infusion of the spurred rye, or of the black cohosh, or Squaw-root, or of the cotton seeds, may be taken every half hour, till the work is accom- plished. After the expulsion of the foetus, the same care should be exercised as after a usual child-birth. This should never be forgotten, as many women have lost their lives from not being sufficiently careful in these circumstances.] 2. For an Ague. An ague is an intermitting fever, each fit of which is preceded by a cold shivering, and goes off in a sweat. Go into the cold bath just before the cold fit. Nothing tends more to prolong an ague, than indulg- ing a lazy, indolent disposition. The patient ought there- fore between the fits to take as much exercise as he can bear; and to use a light diet, and for common drink, Port wine and water is the most proper. When all other means fail, give blue vitriol, from one grain to two grains, in the absence of the fit, and repeat it three or four times in twenty-four hours. Or, boil yarrow in new milk, till it is tender enough to spread as a plaster. An hour before the cold fit, 2*
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