The sick man's companion; or, useful director for unhealthy persons. Being an account of several innocent and valuable medicines / [John Hill].

  • John Hill
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[1774]
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Credit: The sick man's companion; or, useful director for unhealthy persons. Being an account of several innocent and valuable medicines / [John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liquors drank in plenty are nfeful; Tappers are to be avoid¬ ed ; and in full habits there may be added bleeding*, in confurnptions, air, and exercife on horfeback. For the Scurvy, Leprosy, and all Cutaneous Disorders. T^SSENCE OF'water-dock. Authors of the KIj higheil credit have affirmed, that the Water-Dock Root is an abfolute and certain cure for the Scurvy : and, perhaps, there never was an inftance, when it has been fairly tried, in which it failed. The great virtue of the Root lies in its inner rind, of which this Effence is a per- fed: folution. A tea*fpoonful is a fufficient dofe. It fhould be taken twice a day in a wine glafs of water, or, what is ftiil better, in an infufion of the Dock-Root iifelf, where that can be had, which ftili increafes its virtue. It miift be continued for a conGderable time *, and the perfon fliould all the while avoid high-feafoned foods,^ and. life moderate exercife. Experience lliews, that from this eafy method the pa¬ tient may ex]:ed: a perfedt and lading cure. For the Gout and Rheumatism. ^J^LIXIR .OF BARD AN A. The numbers who have found relief from this medicine prove that it has an- fwered the expedation with which it was made public *, and frefli inftances of its good effeds daily fliew that the author is fo happy as to have been of fome benefit to mankind. To prevent the returns of the Gout has been found im- 'poffible ; but to relieve thofe who fuffer it, is in cur power; to reduce the number, and fiiorten the continuance of the fits, and to alleviate the pains of them : fo much will be efieded by this miedicine; and this is as much as any con- fiderate perfon would defire. In the Rheumatifm it is a fafe and abfolute cure ; and the difeafe never returns. The dofe is a tea-fpoonful in a wine-giafs of water, night and morning. .Its operation is by perfpiration, and urine. For Weak Stomachs. '^INCTURE OF CENTAURY ; the great Stomachic Bitter, th-^it gives a healthy appetite, and found di- geftion.