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A treatise on foreign vegetables. Containing ... such as are now commonly used in the practice of physick ... / Chiefly taken from the Materia medica of S.F. Geoffroy. By R. Thicknesse.
- Étienne François Geoffroy
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on foreign vegetables. Containing ... such as are now commonly used in the practice of physick ... / Chiefly taken from the Materia medica of S.F. Geoffroy. By R. Thicknesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![let an Evacuation be made by the following or the like Forms of Medicines. Take of Calabrian Manna %]. diffolve it in |vj. of Plantain-Water. To the drained Liquor add of the univerfal Electuary with a double Quantity of Rhubarb §fs. of the Powder of Ipecacuanha gr. vj. Make a Draught to be taken in the Morning. Or, Take of Rhubarb powdered 9j. Jalap gr. xij. Brafile-Root g. vj. Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb q. f. Make a Bolus. When the firft Pafiages by thefe Medicines have been well evacuated both by Vomit and Stool, give the following aftringent and drengthening Elec¬ tuary. Take Conferve of red Rofes and Hips a^j. Venice-Treacle gij. Powder of Ipecacuanha gr. xviij. Syrup of Quinces q. f. Mix and make an Eletduary. The Dofe is gj. in the Morn¬ ing fading, and the fame four Hours after Din¬ ner, till the Difeafe is perfectly cured. The great Tournefort has obferved, that this Spe- cifick is lefs fuccefsful in Camps than in private Families *, either becaufe the Strength of the Sol¬ diers is generally exhauded by Toil and Hard- fhip, and their Bowels are too much injured ; or becaufe the Air which they breathe is unwholfome and full of noxious Vapours. And what he has afferted in regard to Soldiers, I have alfo experi¬ enced amongd the Poor *, efpecially when the Dy- fentery has been epidemical, and owing to fome malignant Exhalation, which either the Aliment or the Air have introduced into the Mafs of Blood. t ___](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529529_0001_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
