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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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    hereditary, account it bad ; but if the inflamma* tion be only external; the patient not plethoric, or worn out by other diftempers ♦, the cafe fymp- tomarical; happening in the fpring, and the air be clear and warm, ’tis eafily cured. 4. Liquids are here preferable to folids, boiled meats to roall. All acrid, fait, and Ipiced ^ meats, much milk, or any thing vifcid, are bad ; fo is wine to the plethoric. Moderate exercile, a clear air, and covering the eyes with green fiik, are ufeful. 5. Fir It bleed, and repeat it in proportion toC 'u7'c^ in gens the infiammation, the patient’s habit ot body, and“‘'''^* way of living ; and do it the oftner it the cafe be internal. Emetics are generally accounted improper in all ophthalmic cafes, unlefs the meaQes or fmali-pox be approaching. 6. The cure relics chiefly on the due repetition of purgatives ; elpecially if there be a vifeidity of the blood or juices. Begin with lenients. R Fol. fen. ^iij. rad. rhubarb. hidJ. fern. fame, diilc, aa fa], fal. tartar. 9 j. inf unde in aq. faiiicul. q. f colatures 5 iij. adde fyr. de fpina cervina., rof foliit. da rn. f. 'pQtio.^ mane fumenda.} cum regimine. If after a fecond or third repetition of this, the diflemper continue or increafe, R Calomel. 9j. cenferv. rofar. q. f f bolus bora fonini fumendus : mane fequenti. R Fulv. warvkenf fund, refin. jalaP. aa gr. x. cremor. tart. gr. xv. oLfcenicul. gut. j. m. j.piuvis e pauco decGcio avenaceo fumendus. Or, R Al'thiop. mineral. 9 ij- calomel. 9B. conf ro¬ far. 9j. cum fyr. violar. q. f f- bolus qualibet node h, f fumend. mane, fequenti tertiam quamq\ fump^ tionem capiud vel pcticnem fit fupra^ ejsl fequentes piluJas. D » * P<, ^
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