A guide to old age, or a cure for the indiscretions of youth / [William Brodum].

  • Brodum, William
Date:
1795
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Credit: A guide to old age, or a cure for the indiscretions of youth / [William Brodum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the fit; fecondly, to prevent a relkpfe; For the firft, a moderate emetic, of ipe-f cacuanha, or antimonial wine, may be made ufeof, with opiates, and other an- tifpafmodics, as camphor, affafcetida, &c, and for the fecond,^whatever will tend to diminifh the general debility and re- laxation of the fyftem, and to reftore to the mufcles a due and univerfal tone : hence the advantage of Peruvian bark, pure air, and fea-bathing; hence, more efpecially, the peculiar and exclufive be- nefit of the Nervous- Cordial, which, from its bracing property, is acknow- ledged by the moft eminent phyficians, who have done me the honour to invefi- tigate its effects, to be the firft on the lift of tonic medicines, that was ever pro- pofed in any age or country. [As a proof of the above fact, Ibegleavfe to refer to the cafes at the end of the^ chapter.]