An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life.

  • William Falconer
Date:
[1789?]
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Credit: An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture : and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ ] the adminiftration of fome other medicines. I have before mentioned, that faline purgatives may be given to advantage dilfolved in an infufion of flowers of chamomile, and the lame is true of fuch diuretick medicines as are of fmall bulk. The .dulcified fpirits of vitriol, and of nitre, may be igiven in this way, as may fait of tartar, when ufed .as a diuretick. There is likewife another clafs of ftimulant re- medies, which feem to ad more generally on the ifyfiem, though they fometimes excite particular ifecretions. The infufion of muftard-feed. and horfe- ■radiJJjy before recommended as a diuretick, is of this kind, and is often given with advantage in cafes where the fecretions in general are languid and flow, lit may be taken with confiderable advantage in xheumatick cafes of long duration, where the pain is rather tedious and troublefome than acute, and attended with little or no fever. This medicine :may be continued a confiderable time, feveral months for inftance, with lefs injury to the health and conftitution in general, than might be ex- peded from the long ufc of fubftances, whofe fenfible qualities are fo powerful. Stimulant applications of the external kind are next to be confidcred. The principal of thefe are Blijlers. The proper ufe of thefe in many inftances F is