Pharmacopoeiae Radcliffeanae pars altera: or, the second and last part of Dr. Radcliff's prescriptions .... To which is annex'd an appendix, containing a body of prescriptions ... and a complete index to the whole / [By E. Strother].

  • Radcliffe, John, 1650-1714
Date:
1716
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Credit: Pharmacopoeiae Radcliffeanae pars altera: or, the second and last part of Dr. Radcliff's prescriptions .... To which is annex'd an appendix, containing a body of prescriptions ... and a complete index to the whole / [By E. Strother]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ¢ i ef Dr, Radcliff’s Prefcriptions. 45 > will f{tagnate irremediably there; now having premis’d general Evacuations — by Phlegmagogues, and other Hvacua- tors of Phlegm, fuch a Powder as this © immediately drains Humours from the adjacent Parts, and contributes to re- lieve ; but alfo the Uneafinefs it gives the Patient, conduces to keep him a= | wake. a - | knew a Gentleman, who was held ©. # with an Ulcer in the Sinus frontalis, . 4f and which threw off a good Quantity Vij 0% of a fungous Flefh once in'a Week or | ° Fortnight 5 whenever it ‘came within io” the Reach of his Breath, he then cou’d, with ufing Force, blow it out, and was eafy for a while after: To affift this, fuch a Powder anfwers. 1 fhall by the way make here an Obfervation upon Riverius and Willis, both which great © Men feem to have judg’d amifs in the Affair I am going to advance; Rive- rius, in his: Firft Century, and 37.Obfer- vation, takes Notice of a Merchant’s Daughter grievoufly afflicted with:a -.Head-ach, of which fhe died, but eva- cuated Water or Pus from the Brain; _and he concludes, that if fhe had been - timely look’d after, fhe might have recover'd ; and Wills’s Anatom. Cerebri, | : as Cap. 12, -