The soldier's vade mecum: or, the method of curing the diseases and preserving the health of soldiers ... Translated from the Latin / ... To which is added, a treatise on the same subject, translated from Frederic Hoffman [sic] ... Also an essay on the diseases of sailors.

  • Lucantonio Porzio
Date:
1747
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Credit: The soldier's vade mecum: or, the method of curing the diseases and preserving the health of soldiers ... Translated from the Latin / ... To which is added, a treatise on the same subject, translated from Frederic Hoffman [sic] ... Also an essay on the diseases of sailors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 259° Place for twenty-four Hours, tilla yellowifh or Saffron-colour’d Powder fubfides to the Bottom of the Veffel, the Liquor remain- ing clear. This Liquor being pour’d off by Inclination, the Powder is firft wath’d by frequent Affufions of warm Water, till it is deprived of all its Salts; and then a- bout four Ounces of Spirit of Wine are burnt upon it, and it is afterwards dried and kept for Ufe, : This Powder is look’d upon asa kind of Pa- nacea or univerfal Remedy. It fometimes ex- ‘cites Vomiting, efpecially when it meets with an Acid in the Stomach ; and is fometimes cathar- tic, diaphoretic, and fudorific, according as it is determined by the Difpofition of the Patient to act upon any one Humour more than on an- other. It is given from one to four Grains; or fometimes, when it is defign’d only to atte- nuate or divide any Vifcidities in the Fiuids, in the Quantity of half a Grain, repeated every three, four, or fix Hours. In acute Fevers, where there is a great Crudity and Spiffitude of the Humours, it is given in fmall Dofes with Succef%. It changes the crude and ferous Eva- cuations by Stoo], into a more bilious Confi- ftence, by attenuating the vifcid Bile, and fo _ difpofing it to pafs off by Stool, Ic is often given with Succefs in the Beginning of the Small-pox and Meafles, when they are appre- hended to be of a bad kind, in fmall Dofes, mix’d with Bezoardic Powders or Abforbents; fuch as Cr abs-