The good Samaritan; or complete English physician: containing observations on the most frequent diseases ... with directions for the management of the sick: and a collection of ... receipts ... To which is added, a method of restoring to life persons thought drowned, or ... suffocated / [Theophilus Lobb].

  • Theophilus Lobb
Date:
[1764?]
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Credit: The good Samaritan; or complete English physician: containing observations on the most frequent diseases ... with directions for the management of the sick: and a collection of ... receipts ... To which is added, a method of restoring to life persons thought drowned, or ... suffocated / [Theophilus Lobb]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (st) # phyfician, there is none nigher than ona? ‘© miles. He likewife mentions that the bute couch has been much in this country. February 28, I returned: an anfwer in which I wrote as follows : . . Againft the Hoopinc Covcu. Take falt of wormwood one f{cruple, cochi- neal- ten grains, fimple alexiteric water, three ounces, balfamic fyrup half an ounce, fperma -ceti, diffolved with the yoik of egg, one drachin, paregorick elixir, two drachms ; make a mix- ture. Of this mixture, the fourth part of a common or table fpoorful, may be given to achild in his first year, four times a day, at four hours diftance, with a fpeonfol of barley water after it. Toa child of two years old, half a fpoonful may be a dofe.. Toa child of about four years old, a common fpoonful may be a dofe. As for the boy you mentioned of fix years old, he-may take a large fpoonful, four times a days Alfo he may take three or four drops of the bal-. {am. capivi, with powder fugar, night and morn- ing. And milk and apples are a proper food for him, that is, apples boiled in a pipkin (as if in- tended for fauce to roatted. pork). put into very warin milk, and fweetened tohis palate with fugar. In the latter end of June latt, LI received ano- ther letter, in which after an apology for his long filence, and fome other matters, he writes thus, Viz. gs Ag
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