A dissertation on cancerous diseases / ... Translated from the Latin, with notes.

  • Bernard Peyrilhe
Date:
1777
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Credit: A dissertation on cancerous diseases / ... Translated from the Latin, with notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >36 ] 44 in water, reduce the decodtion to two “ quarts ; and add to each of thefe, one 44 or two drachms of cream of tartar, or 44 as much nitre ; and let this be ufed as 44common drink.” With refpedt to medicinal aliments ; barley, rice, See. will be of great ufe.— The food fhould be acidulated with le¬ mon or orange juice, cream of tartar, for- rel, &c. The patient fhould eat liberal¬ ly of fruit ; and if his ftrength is not fuf- ficiently fupported by thefe, white bread may be added, that is well fermented ; with fweetmeats, &c. and when the pu¬ trid diathelis is fomewhat moderated, a milk diet will be of great utility (b). Amongft a variety of antifeptic medi¬ cines, the peruvian bark, feems to claim the preference.—We have ufed it wTith no little profulion, in the way mentioned by Dr. Archer of Dublin (c), giving the (b) See an excellent diflertation on antifeptks, by M« do ’ Boiflieu page 128. (c) Macbride’s Effays, page 153, patient