Phylaxa medicina: a supplement to the London-Dispensatory, and Doron: being, a cabinet of choice medicines collected, and fitted for vulgar use ... / [William Salmon].
- William Salmon
- Date:
- 1688
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Phylaxa medicina: a supplement to the London-Dispensatory, and Doron: being, a cabinet of choice medicines collected, and fitted for vulgar use ... / [William Salmon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to. fweeten the Blood , open all | “Obitruétions of the inward parts, as-of the Liver, Spleen, Lungs. Womb ; Reins’, and Bladder. Te brings down the Terms ob- ) fra@ed, andis:powerful againit auind icexConfam ption, ‘Afthma., | Pleurifie ,, Melancholy 5 Ulcers , . § inward! and outward, 'Scabs;. and other Breakings out. Meafles, final Pox ,:' {potted - Feverjand Calenture$ it reprefles | the exorbitance of the ‘Fever , | takes away all the Symptoms,and caus reft and. eafes It is fingular againft the Plague. andall other Difeafes arifing from fharpnefs and obftruétions of the humours, or ftagnation.of the Blood. WV. it is an excellent remedy invall cafes of putrefaétion of the Blood and Humours; prevails againft Rheumatifms and ‘Gouts, cuts tough) flegm’, and diffolves Tartarous matter, lodging inthe Ventricle: it is good’ againtt fighing and fadnels , pains and ftitches in the fides, and - helps Trembling and Palpitation of the Heart. VJ. As this tinéture is a-nota- ble'Aperitive, foit works all its effeéts powerfully , yet with a World of fweetnefSand pleafure it opens obftruétions in the Pan- cieas, Mefentery, and Meferaick Veins , diffolves.the ftagnation of the Blood , and al] the moft senacious Vifcofities wherefoe- ver inany part of the Body,moft a it if given for fome days according to Ant. | VAL It provokes Urine, and is good) againft Gravely *Slime., and Wifcous' matter both in-Reins and Bladder, purifying the whole Mas of Blood , and taking ‘away themalignity ofthe humotrs, in any difeafe whatever, ofpecially inthe Kings-Evil, fcirchofe-and Leprofe tumours, &¢. in fo much that there isfcarcely the like ge- neral remedy in theiwhdle Art of Phyfick. 3 WIM It haftens and facilitates the Birél', and brings away the Secundine or after-birth, yea'the child although dead. It is a pre- fent remedy againft ‘the ~Colick and’ after-pains jas alfo in the Gripings of the Guts and Bow- els, moré efpecially'if it be mixt with equal parts of our Gutta V7- re, or Cordial drops... «> 1X.’ cured with this tinture acertain Woman ‘of \atr mvete- rate pining and wafting; a {uppo- fed incurable. Coenfiiinption , ac- companied with vehement dolots of the’Bowels; ‘after'a two years defpair’; when fhe wast) ‘weak fhe could not dftahd aloné without two to hold he’, looking ‘like (as.it were) thé picture of Death, andigiven over as‘palt Iiopes, “by fevetal ‘able and learned Men. X.She ‘dlone taking of this Medicine ‘in Sack’, or Milk, or Ale fweetnéd , but’ moft com- monly in Milk, morning,’ noor, and ‘night , and?) folnetimes five or fix times’ a day’¢ drmking no drink without it’) for about a month or five weeks time ; “was reftored to the wonder'of all that knew her. ods p i g | 4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30333684_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
