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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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    Inflammation, &c, of the^Von^GVE. Parti. 2. This does not always confine itfelf to the al^e^ but will alfo corrode the very fubftance of the nofe. 3. The cure is difficult ♦, the venereal fpecies proving more eafy to be fubdued, than that from a bad habit of body. 4. Let the regimen be the fame as in a cancer, or icrophulous conftitution. 5. If it be venereal, proceed with internals, as in the lues venerea \ and ule for the dreffing, once a day, with a diachylon plafter, fomewhat like the following. R Liniment, arccei^ ung. nicotian^ aa ^ iij. fre^ cipit, rub, fubtilijfime trit, 9 ij, vel'p^], pulv, myrrh, 3 ij. m. Wafh it alfo now and then with tinbl. myrrh. 13 aloes, A falivation in obftinate cafes is advife- able: and if the ulcer runs, drefs it only with dry calomel. Sect. IV. Difeafes of the Tongue. Inflammation, Dryness, Whiteness of the L: 1. TNflammation, dryriefs, and whitenels in the J[ tongue, often proceed from fevers, or hard drinking, an evaporation, diminution, or conden- fation of the faliva^ affefling the patient’s fpeech, and vitiating his tafte. 2. In fevers ’tis accounted a bad fign, but gives no certain indication of life or death. 3. Let the diet be moiftening and cooling, as is order’d in fevers. 4. In order to the cure, R Bol, armen. 3 ij. fyr, de moris ^ j. fpt. vitriol. Let
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