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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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    lO Progniyjlics. Regirrsen. CurSy in gene- raL E p I L E P s r.' Part. I. perfeifb ignorance of all that pafs’d during the paroxyfm. 4. If hereditary, it is reckon’d incurable ; in a child, dangerous *, and happening after puberty, hard to cure. A violent fit fometimes becomes apopledic, and proves mortal. Coming about the firft appearance of the menfes^ they ufually cure it. A long continued quartan will likewife refoive it. 5. If caufed by repletion, order a flender de- tcrfive diet •, if by inanition, the contrary. See Apoplexy, pag. 2. §. 5. 6. During the paroxyfm, be the caufe what it will, if the patient is plethoric, or continues long in the fit, bleed, and proceed as in the apo¬ plexy, p. 3, 4. §. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. remembring here, to refift the convulfion by forcibly keeping the hands open, and the legs and arms in their natural pofture. After the fit is over, if the caufe be repletion, let the cure be beguti with bleeding in the jugular *, repeating it pro re nata: or if no dangerous fymptoms require the larger veffels to be immediately opened, cupping may fuffice. The fame night, if neceflary, or on the following, ex¬ hibit an emetic; and repeat it according to the inveteracy and fixednefs of the difiemper ; after which ufe purgatives. R Extras, rud. pil, coch, min. da gr. xv. fal, tartar, fal. vol. fuccin. pulv. c aft or. rufs. da gr. y.f. pilularum dojis. 7. If the patient be hypochondriacal, coftive, or inclined to the iliac pafiion ; if the blood be vifcid, or voracity has preceded, then R Calomel, gr. xv. conferv. anthos. 9 ij. /. hoh h. f. fumendus', C? mane fequenti capiat, hauft. feqnentem. R Fol.fenee 5 iij. rad. rhaharh. agaric, da 9 ij. fal. tar tari'^]. inf unde in aq. rut^e q. f colaturee 2 iij. adde fyr. de fpina cervina ^ cledi e fucco rofar.
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