Volume 1

Opera omnia / Richardi Mead.

  • Richard Mead
Date:
1757
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Opera omnia / Richardi Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    efficacia. Ejus duas fune fpecies, alia a Diofcoride dckripta , Leucoii ipecies eft ; alia a Galeno 3 quae Marrubium (a ). His addi poffint Allium , Agri« monia, Oxylapathum. Nunc vero notandum efl omnia hrec medica- menta inter diuretica in (ignem obtinere effica- ciam ; duo priora ex animali deiumpta genere , pofterius vero vegetabile. EJt enim Raius(b) ob- fervat, fpongia Cynorrhodi, tumor efl in hac ena¬ tus planta , ea ratione qua Galla in quercu oriun¬ tur, Si refecatur illa , vermibus albidis fcatere deprehenditur 5 quorum nidum conftuuit ;hatc in- fedfca per hyefhem totam ibi commorantur , at verno calore alas induunt, &c in mufeas ver fas , priftinas domos delerunt» Omnia porro infedta diuretico fale turgent in- figniter. Verum fupra omnia infecta fale hujus generis acbuofffimo referta funt Cantharides, hinc ultra do&iffimus Baecius (c) progreditur, Sc Rbaze Joannecjuc Damafceno Auihoribus , has etiam per plures dies fuadet in fubftantia adver- fus Rabiem alTumendas. Hoc aurem antidotum (fic enim eam vocat compofitionem ) paratur, dum mufese in iero laciis inter conficiendum butyrum expreifo, prius infufas exiiccantur, pofteaque flore lentium, fmulque vino addito formantur in tro- chifcos icrupuli unius ponderis ,quonam unufquif- queprpdoli lingulis diebus affumitur j quo quidem medicamento, quantumvis fanguineam inde min¬ gat urinam sger, fcelieiter hydrophobia praeverti- (a) V. Eab| Colitmn. Phythobafanon , ps 27, \ (b) Hift, Piant. Tom. ij. p, 147, (O De Venenis, p. 89.
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