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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    face is often purple. In some cases, the disease comes on gradually, attended with loss of memory, vertigo, drowsiness, partial paralysis of the tongue, and often, of one side, or of some of the limbs. Persons seldom live over three attacks, and sometimes die of the first. Persons most liable to this disease are fleshy, thick set, short necked, and good livers, often indulging the appetite to excess. It is not often that they are attacked before the age of forty. Remedies. The patient should be seated, and cold water poured upon his head for some time. This is prefer- able to bleeding. The feet should be put into warm water made strong with mustard.] 5. Canine Appetite, or Insatiable Desire of Eating. If it be without vomiting, is often cured by a small bit of bread dipt in wine, and applied to the nostrils. Dr. Shomberg. [Hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but may also arise from affections of the brain. It may depend on a dis- ordered secretion of the 6tomach, or imperfect nutrition. It is, sometimes, a species of insanity. It may be relieved by a tight bandage around the abdomen.] 6. The Asthma. An asthma is a difficulty of breathing, returning at intervals, from a disorder in the lungs. In the common or moist asthma, the patient spits much.
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