Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur.

  • Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet
Date:
1786
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Credit: Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] .. ■ _ . 54 purge, let the patient ufe the fame things 44 as the former, and exercife in the fame 44 manner. If he be emaciated, he fhould 44 ufe the fame means of cure, but let his 44 body be previoufly moiftened with -warm 44 fomentations, to render it more obedient 44 to the medicines.” This laft chapter on the univerfal Dropfy, may be considered as a colle&ion or compendium of the remedies which he has at different times ufed for the cure of this difeafe. He exhibits purges and glyfters with thegranum cnidium, and the juice of the beet root. He gives milk with honey, or fait, in a quantity of eight hemime, and after the purges, advifes the fame things as to the former, and exercife in the fame manner. He even endeavours by a great volume of waters to open the ex- cretories which had been contrafted and clofed. Vanfwieten in mentioning the his¬ tories of dropficalperfons, cured by medici¬ nal waters, upon the authority of the cele¬ brated Cocchi, quotes this laft chapter of Hippocrates upon the fubjeff of giving wa¬ ter, and ingenuoufly, but with fome fur- prize, confeffes, 44 That although there 44 is no mention made here of medicated water