Some observations of the power and efficacy of a medicine against loosenesses, bloody fluxes, etc / by the late Dr. William Cockburn ... Also cases where the said medicine was administered by Mr. John Dove.
- Henry Boësnier de La Touche
- Date:
- 1764
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations of the power and efficacy of a medicine against loosenesses, bloody fluxes, etc / by the late Dr. William Cockburn ... Also cases where the said medicine was administered by Mr. John Dove. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 7° ] The great Importance of the Remedy, which is the Subjedt of this little Tradt is very evident to any confiderate Perfon who has read the fore¬ going Sheets; I have therein mentioned it’s great E.fficacy to cure Loofenejfes^ Bloody-Fluxesy the IVatry Gripes in little Children, Incontinency of Uriney the Tenafmus^ Coftivenefs^ the Fluor-Albus or JVhites *, all of which are very difficult to ma¬ nage, and moft of them when violent incurable by any Medicine now known, for the Want of which very many lofe their Lives; and as I faid before, I have great Reafon to think this Medicine will cure any Flux incident to Men, Women, and Children ; and moft Pains and Diforders of the Stomach and Bowels: And as the good Condition of thofe Parts is of the ut- moft Confequence for the Prefervation of Plealth, I fay not too much, when I fuppofe this Medi¬ cine to be the moft important in the whole Ma¬ teria Mcdica. This Medicine in it’s fimpk Preparation is a- mazingly powerful; but there are «S8^Loofc- nefles and Fluxes that will however not yield to it: And in thofe Cafes the Efficacy of different Preparations of it, which I have met with among Dr. Cockburn^s Papers, is furprizing; the Power of it is therefore not to be judged of, but when ad- miniftered by myfelf, and varied in it’s Prepara¬ tion as I find the particular Cafe requires ^ there¬ fore when I myfelf attend the Adminiftration of it, I will be bold to fay, that it will cure eight in ten at leaft, if not nineteen in twenty, and that by an](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30372513_0084.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
