Primitive physic, or An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley, M.A.
- John Wesley
- Date:
- MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Primitive physic, or An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley, M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![( 3* ) 13. Or, eat a fmall lemon, rind and all: 14. In the hot lit, if violent, take eight or ten drops of laudanum : if coflive, in hierapicra. 15. Dr. Lind fays, an ague is certainly cured by taking from ten to twenty drops of laudanum, with two drachms of fyrup of poppies in any warm liquid, half an hour after the heat begins. $T It is proper to take a gentle vomit, and fcmctimes a purge, before you uje any of theje medicines. If a vomit is taken two hours before the Jit is exjErfjted, it generally prevents that Jit, and Jomctivies cures an ague: (Specially in children.*—It is aljo proper to repeat the medicine (whatever it he) about a week after, in order to prevent a relap/e. Do not take any purge Jo on after.— The daily uje of the jlejh-bruj]'.y and frequent cold ba~ thing are of great u/e to prtvtnt relapjes. 16. Children have been cured by wear- ing a waiiicoat, in which bark was quilted. 3. A Tertian Ague.'* 17. Is often cured by taking a purged one day ; and the next, bleeding in the beginning of the fit t : 18. Or, take a tea-fpoonful of fait of tartar * That is, an ajrue which returns every pther day. + [bloodletting (liquid not be 1 '. the tall ajucs ofvVarm dimateSj without the udvke 01 a flulful jphyficiaft;]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21163431_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
