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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    : [260] Crabs-Eyes, red Coral, Pearl, Ege-Shel!s, Crabs- Claws, and the like ; for thus it excites a Spitting and Diaphoretfis, removes Anxieties, corrects the Lymph and coagulated Serum, and raifes fach an Effervefcence in the Blood as tends to purify it, Glauber confirms thefe Virtues, by the Exam- ples of feven Children in the Small-pox. Fre- deric Hoffman commends the -ufe of this Powder in obftinate autumnal Agues ; becaufe it power- fully opens Obftrudtions, particularly” of the Li- ver, by which thefe Fevers are produced, efpe- cially when taken in the Quantity of a Grain, mix’d with detergent antifebrile Salts, fuch as the Salt of Wormwood, the febrifugous Salt of Sylvius, vitriolated Tartar, andthelike. Schroder order’d it in the Quantity of half a Grain ora Grain, three or four times a Day, in the inter- mitting Feversof Children, He alfo commends it very much for correcting the Acrimony of the Serum, and efpecially of thofe Tears, which produce Pains of the Eyes, and very bad Oph- thalmiass The fame Author mentions a Wo- man labouring under fcorbutic Symptoms and Defluxions of fo acrid a Nature, as to corrode her Lungs and bring on a Spitting of Blood, who, by ufing this Sulphur of Antimony in very {mall Quantities, corrected the Acrimony and ftopt the Motion of this Serum, and there- by prevented the growth of a Difeafe, which muft otherwife have been productive of very fatal Confequences, Hoffman affirms, that it isa very effectual Remedy in thofe chronical Diteafes, which proceed from long-protraéted Obftructions of