The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover.

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1771
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V ' I cored. Yet Mr. Tcwne, one of the King’s Gardiners, died of it under Dr. Radclijj’s Care. — A Gentleman carried me to that unfortunate Man ; but the Doftor was fo confident of laving him by the wonderful Panacaea Blifters, that I was not liftend to. The Blifters, inflead of proving Remedies, only gave the Patient Pain, without affording him any Help; fo that in a fhort Time after he died. t( Take Steel prepared with Sulphur »and crude Antimony, each one Ounce, Diagri- (c dium four Ounces: Make a fine Powder cc of thefe ; then acid as much of any Syrup <c as will make a foft Eledtuary. — cc Take a large Spoonful at Night going to <£ Bed, and another in the Morning, ftirring “ it well from the Bottom, increafing or lef- <c fening the Dofe as you fee Occafion.—— <c For if one Spoonful, taken over Night, C£ brings away two or three Quarts, it need cc not be repeated in the Morning. - <£ You muft not drink during the Opera- <c tion of this Phyfick, as in other Purges; £C for if you pour in too much Liquor, it will deftroy the End of Purging, and you <c will i