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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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    Sed:. I. Apoplexy. ^ 6. During the fit, bleed largely in the arm, or Cu^ ‘e in gene’' rather the jugular; efpecially if the patient be fan- guine: apply ftrong volatiles to the nofe ; and,^ if poffible, give a large dofe of Sal. vol. ol. in hauftu aq. p^eon. c. cerafor. nig. aa. Blow ftrong fternu- tatories up the nofe ; and rub the temples with fpi« rituous cephalic mixtures. Apply,if neceffary, a hot iron near the vertex.^ or occiput *, or blow into the noftrils and mouth, the fumes of tobacco, h'om an inverted pipe. Apply, direftly, a large epifpaftic to the neck ; and, as foon as polTible, give a ftrong emetic, purge or glyfter. In the mean time, R Puh.fol. afari., rad. elleh. alb. da^ \. f.fler- nutatorium \ cujus paru?n in nares^ mediante cala- fno^ injletur frequenter. 7. R Aq. hungar. fpir. lavendul. comp. fal. volai. cleof. da ^j. ol. caftor. fuccin. aa 5 B. w. ^ cum hoc bene fricentur tempora iA detonfum caput. ‘ * 8. After the fit is over,, nothing zontxz-After the fit. indicate bleeding, but extream weaknefs, great old age, or a watery conftitution. Mittatur fanguis e vena qualibet ad ^xij. if pof tres dies ab operatione celebrata.^ tantundem. Or, Applicentiir cucurbituldt cervici., fcapulis.^ parti- bufque adjacentibus., in eiindem fine?72: iteretur vero harum application pro re natUn curationis decurfum. And after the operation, R Aq. cerafor. nigror. ^ \].preon. c. 5 vj. confedl. alkerm. fal. vol. oleof fpir. lavendul., comp, da oj* fy^- p^on. c. 3 iij. m. f. haufius bora fomni fu- mendus. 9. On the very day of bleeding, if requifite, or the day after, R Pulv. ipecacuanh. 9 ij. cum fyr. violar. q, f. f. boluSn bora commodd fumendus *, bihendo de de- codio hordei copiofe inter operandum. Or, . V. ^ R Vin. emet,^]; osymeL fcillit. ^ B. m,
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