Practical observations on the cure of hectic and slow fevers, and the pulmonary consumption, to which is added, a method of treating several kinds of internal hemorrhages / By Moses Griffith.

  • Moses Griffith
Date:
1776
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Credit: Practical observations on the cure of hectic and slow fevers, and the pulmonary consumption, to which is added, a method of treating several kinds of internal hemorrhages / By Moses Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The myrrh may gradually be en- creafed to feventeen or eighteen grains for a dofe; the fait of wormwood to ten, and the fait of fleel to four. But it is always bed: to begin with fmall dofes; and as the fymptoms abate, to give two draughts a-day, each containing eighteen or twenty grains of myrrh; twelve of fait of wormwood ; and five or fix of fait of fteel; which is the largeft dofe I have given. Although this medicine may, at firft fight, appear to be naufeous, yet I have fcarce ever found it rejected by the ftomach, or exciting any kind of dillurbance in the habit after- ' ' •« 1 ' T • - V. wards. / I have ufed the fame method, with equal fuccefs, in flow fevers attended B 3 with \
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