A letter from an apothecary in London, to his friend in the country, concerning the present practice of physick : in regard to empiricks, empirical methods of cure, and nostrums. With remarks on Dr. Mead's, Mr. Freke's, and Mr. Cheselden's method of cure for the itch, by externals only ... Also some observations upon manna ... with remarks on Dr. Mead's certain cure for the bite of a mad dog.

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1752
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Credit: A letter from an apothecary in London, to his friend in the country, concerning the present practice of physick : in regard to empiricks, empirical methods of cure, and nostrums. With remarks on Dr. Mead's, Mr. Freke's, and Mr. Cheselden's method of cure for the itch, by externals only ... Also some observations upon manna ... with remarks on Dr. Mead's certain cure for the bite of a mad dog. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fever •, infomuch that, though it was given to People of all Ages, and in very large Dofes, yet nobody was hurt upon that Ac¬ count ; but it was obferved to be peculiarly fpecifick in that particular Diforder, as was let forth in a fmall Pamphlet publilhed up?- on that Account, intitled, De Febre Bri- tannica, and fince, in many Epidemick Dif- orders, it has done great Service, even in the Hands of the common People, but much more fo when given with Judgment and Difcretion. Mithridate is a noble Medicine, and may be given in moll kind of Fevers, and is more efficacious than the Compound Powder of Contrayerva, the Bezoardick Powder, and the Cordial Confebiion in prefent Vogue and or¬ dinarily preferibed in common Practice: It’s Dofe is from one Scruple to one Dram, to be repeated as there fhall be Occafion, ’till fome Crifis appears, and the Diltemper abates. Philonium Romanum is a warm Opiate, calculated for the Relief of thofe yvho la¬ bour under any inteftinal Difcharges of Blood, &c. by qualifying the fiimy Humours whofe acrimonious Corroding Particles are preying upon the Veffels, and opening their inflamed Orifices. It is to be given when Bleeding, Vomiting and Rhubarb fails; and is to be repeated at proper Diflances, in Proportion to the Obllinacy and Duration of the