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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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    cclatur^ 3 IV. folve vitriol roman. ^ alb. alum. uft. fal. armon. crud. da j]. m. Make it ilrongeroccafionally with ung. agypiac. fpt. vitriol. &c. 15. Aftronger. R J(i. calc, tindi. terr. japon._ aa 316. mercur. cor^ rojiv. Jal. armon. vitriol, alb. aa gr. xv. camphor, 3j, tindi. myrrh, fpt. vitriol, laud, liquid, aa 34 16. If the pain be fmall, the polypus not arrived at its height, or become fit for the operation, and no very dangerous fymptoms are likely to enftiejthe ftrongeft efcharotics may be immediately ufed to the polypus-) by means of a proper inftrument. For example, fpt. vel ol. vitriol, butyr. antimon. alum, uft. pr^cipit. rub. lap. infernal, cauftic. lunare.^ See. which will hardly fail of fuccefs. But if the poly¬ pus fhould increafe, or have been of long Handing, be about its height, and feem fit for extirpation j or if the patient appears in danger of fuftocation, dired recourfe miiH be had to the operation,unlefs the polypus be painful, feirrhous, ulcerous, or can¬ cerous, in which cafes cauftic medicines are more fuccefsful than the operation, unlefs the moft im¬ minent danger make it neceftary. In venereal cafes alfo, cauftics feem to be preferable. 17. The operation is performed in two difterent ways, vi%. by ligature, or by a tenacula made for the purpofe. When the roots of the polypus leach not to the upper part of the nares^ ufe the ligature. The moft frequent method made choice of, is that of extradlion with the tenacula.^ by di awing it o-ently away in twilling the inftrument. When they are very large, and hinder refpiration and degluti¬ tion, they muft be extraded, by the mouth, with a crooked tenacula. After the operation, fyringe up fomewarm red wine-, and in cafe of an hemorrhage, ufe a reftringent powder, or a deiiccative lotion. 18. Any remains of the roots, after extiadion, may be confumed by the above mention d powders:
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