Primitive physick: or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases / By John Wesley.

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
Date:
[1792]
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Credit: Primitive physick: or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases / By John Wesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    153' ■477' Plunge into coW daily for twenty days, and keep as long under it as poffible—This has cured even after the hydrophobia was begun, jj f] If this is rea’ly a nervous dlforder, what wond?r if it fhould be cured by cold bathing ? 478. Or, mix afhes of. trefoil with hog's-lard’i and anoint the part as foon as poffible. Repeat it twice or thrice at hx hours difiance. This- has cured many : and particularly a dog bit on the nofe by a mad dog. 479. Or, mix a pound of falt^ with a quart of water. Squeeze, bathe, and waffi the wound with this for an hour. Then bind Tome fait upon it for twelve hours, N, B. The Author of this receipt zoas bit fix times hy mad dogs, and always cured hiwfeff by this means, 480. Or, mix powdered four drachms: black pepper^ two drachms. Divide this into four parts, and take one in zoarm 7nilk for four mornings falling. Dr. Mead affirms he never, knew this fail:—But it has fometimes failed. 481. Or, take two or three fpoonfuls of the juice of ribwort^ morning and evening, as foon as poffible after the bite. Repeat this for two or three changes of the moon. It has not been known to fail. Immediately confult an honeR Phyfician* 154, The Meajles,\ 482. Drink only thin water-gruel^ or milk and the more the better; or and water. 483. If the cough be very troublefome, take fre- quently a fpoonful of barley-water Iwcetened ^ This diftemper is always preceded by a violent cough, often fourteen days before tlic red I'poU come out. with