A sovereign remedy for the dropsy. Published by desire, for public benefit.

Date:
1783
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A sovereign remedy for the dropsy. Published by desire, for public benefit. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other day, or once in three days, and not oftener, till cured; and do not let blood, or ufe any other remedy dur¬ ing the courfe.. Nothing can be more gentle and fafe than the opera¬ tion of this Remedy, and it often has little or no feniible one. If the Dropfy is in the body, it difcharges it by urine, without any inconvenience : if it is between the fkin and fleffi, it caufes bliflers to arife on the legs, by which it will run off; but this does not happen to more than one in thirty; and in this cafe, no plaflers mult be ufed, for they would hinder the difcharge; but you mult apply red cabbage-leaves. If the diforder is caufed by wind, it difpels the phlegm that detains the wind. It cures the Dropfy in pregnant women, without injury to the mother or the infant. It alfo cures the Althma, Con- fumption, and Diforders of the Liver. It is good for the Bleeding at the Nofe, and for venomous Bites and Poifons. The efficacy of the above remedy has been proved by the cure of upwards of fifty dropfical women with child, and by that of more than three hundred other people. OBSERVATIONS.
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