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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

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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$’Regimen. Cure. Gutta Serena. Part I. patient aged; if the diforder follows the palfy, or the perfon incline to one, ’tis generally efteem’d incurable. The reverfe give hopes of a cure by a long continuance of evacuations and proper inter¬ nals ; for externals can fcarce do any fervice. 5. Let the diet'be attenuating, and all vifcid nutriment, as pork, goofe, filh, cheefe, avoid¬ ed. Let the bread be mixed with fennel-feed. Let turnips be indulged, and pigeons, chickens, broths, and wine medicated with fage, eye-bright, rofemary, fennel-feeds, £s?c. allow’d in moderation. 6. Ufe in order all the evacuations mention’d in the ophthalmia^ pag. 35, 36. §. 6, 7, 8. and calomel in purgatives*, tho’ perhaps it is here better when given without them. R Calomel. 915. vel gr. 15. co^ferv, anthos q. /, f. bolus h. f qualihet no^e fumendus 5 mane fequen- ti qiiintam vel fextam ajfumptionem hibat potionem purg. communem. Let this procefs be continued for fix weeks, if neceflary. If the calomel takes downwards, mix with it confebf. fracajlor. f. vel laud, liquid, gut. 15. But if it ftill caufes a diarrhoea with gripings, omit it till they ceafe, or are carried off by purg- ing. 7. After evacuations, or on intermediate days, R Vm. alb. aq. feenicul. da ^ il5. facch. alb. mil- lep. viv. da ^\]. n. m. 9 j. contunde ftmul fs? fiat exprejfio.^ omni mane per ires menfes fumenda. R Pulv. milleped. ^j. fern, feenicul, dulc. 3 ij. n. m. fal. volat. fuccin. c aft or. da facch. alb. ^ 15. f.pulv. chart, xvj. fumat unam bis in die. Or, R Mthiop. mineral, fal. volat. fuccin. cam¬ phor. da gr. iv. f pulv, bis in die fumend, cum. cochl. V. exprefs. fequent. R MiU$

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