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Practical observations on the cure of hectic and slow fevers and the pulmonary consumption: to which is added a method of treating several kinds of internal hemorrhages / [Moses Griffith].

  • Griffith, Moses, 1699-1785.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Practical observations on the cure of hectic and slow fevers and the pulmonary consumption: to which is added a method of treating several kinds of internal hemorrhages / [Moses Griffith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i * ] Aqua? ciiyujlihet fpirituof/r drachms fex, ife unci a und ; I)tin adde * Sails abfinthii drachmam dimidiam, Sails martls grana duodecim, SyruplJimphcls drachmas duas. Flat mijlura, in haujlus quatuor diflrlhucnda. quorum unum capiat mane, hord quinta pojl meridiem, et hord decubitus, This proportion of the firnple and fpirituous water will, with care, diffolve the myrrh entirely, which is a circumftance that ihould be attended to, fince by that means the medicine will fit lighter on the ftomach, and probably pafs more readily into V * Though I have always ordered the medicine to be made up In this manner, yet I find, by a late enquiry, that it has like- wife been made up .fometimes by rubbing the fait of wormwood with the myrrh, and adding the waters, and then the fait of fteel; and fometimes by fir ft rubbing the myrrh fine with the fait of wormwood, then adding the fait of fteel, and after rubbing them a little together, quickly pouring in the waters'. I have not been fenfible of any difference in the effect in whichfoever of the three ways the medicine was made up ; yet, upon carefully comparing together the feveral compofitions, that, in which the fait of wormwood was ftrft rubbed with the myrrh, -the waters then added, and the fait of fteel laft of all, plainly appeared to me the mo ft uniform mixture. It kept its colour much longer on ftanding, depofited a lighter fediment; and, upon being fhaken, united more eafily than either of the other two; and it therefore may deferve the preference. the
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