The last days of Charles II / by Raymond Crawfurd.

  • Raymond Crawfurd
Date:
1909
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Credit: The last days of Charles II / by Raymond Crawfurd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    account they were unanimously of opinion, that this Bark should be administered to His Serene Majesty, so as to anticipate speedily and surely the nocturnal exacerbations of the symptoms. Accordingly they prescribed Bark to be given in the following manner:— R Fine powder of Peruvian Bark, 1 drachm. Anti¬ dotal Milk Water, 4 ounces. Syrup of Cloves, 2 drachms. Mix and make a small draught, to be taken when indicated, and repeated as often as may seem advisable to the Physicians in attendance. This prescription was signed by the following:— T. Witherly T. Millington T. Short Edm. King E. Farrell Wr. Charleton R. Lower F. Mendes J. Lefebvre C. Scarburgh Edm. Dickenson E. Browne C. Frasier M. Lister They also determined with one consent that a specified dose of Febrifuge Bark should be handed to His Most Serene Majesty at 6 a.m. and 9 a.m., and also at noon in 4 ounces of Antidotal Milk Water, and to introduce at the intermediate hours 40 drops of Spirit of Human Skull in an ounce and a half of Pearl Julep. February 6. As the illness was now becoming more grave and His Most Serene Majesty’s strength (Woe’s me!) gradually failing the Physicians were compelled to have recourse to the more active Cardiac Tonics, and to prescribe the following: — R. Raleigh’s Stronger Antidote § drachm To be taken at once in a Tablespoonful of Pearl Julep, and followed soon after by 4 Tablespoonfuls of the same Julep. R. Goa Stone 1 scruple. To be taken an hour or two later in a draught of Broth.
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