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A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are ... described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage. And symptom thereof ... : the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham ... / by Peter Shaw.

  • Peter Shaw
Date:
1745
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Credit: A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are ... described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage. And symptom thereof ... : the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham ... / by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Se£l. VII. Angina; S7 nal or internal remedies, but a nutrimental diet. If the quincy be watery or csdematousy treat it as the dropfy j if convulfive, as a convulfion 5 if pa¬ ralytic, as the palfy, &c. 18. Sometimes the uvula in this caie is telax- ed, and made to hang down lower than ordi-/;5>^ uvula. nary, from a flux of humors thereon •, which, and its being tumifled, may hinder deglutition and Ipeech, and fomedmes prove fuffocating, ’Tis dangerous when feirrhous or cancerous, as often happens in venereal cafes *, and then it is gene¬ rally eat away, unlefs the op^ation be ufed to prevent it. Let the regimen be the fame as in the forego¬ ing. When the cafe is venereal, proceed as in the lues venerea }, but when not, as in the an- ' gina., as to evacuations. When the relaxation and inflammation are great, ftroaking up the%air of the head for feme time, with a little brandy, and ung. dialth. is faid to be ferviceable; tho’ it may feem a ridiculous remedy. Let this powder alfo be blown on the uvula with a quill, or apply’d to it with an uvula-fpoon. R Pulv. flor. rof. rub,, '^yxlnzih. alum. uft. da 5 B. m. Or, R Bol.srm, 3]. alum, uft, zinzib. fal. -com. da 3 i. m. Or, R Cort. granat. | B. coq, in aq. font. q. f. co- htur^ lb B. affunde fuper ftor, rofar. rub. halauft, da s iij.y^^. vitriol, gut, 40. colatura adde fpt, vin, ^]*fpt.fal. armon, If the diforder gives no way to thefe or the like medicines, recourfe muft be had to extirpation.
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