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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

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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$Take of Cinnamon-Water §fs. Mngwort and Orange-Flower Water a %]. the Confection of i-'L/ Kermes gfs. Make a Mixture to be ufed in difficult Labour. Take of Cinnamon-Water 3Jfs. Baum and Car- dtius-Water a 5iij. Syrup of Cinnamon 5j. Make a julep to be given by Spoonfuls in Lofs of Strength, Swooning, and malignant Fevers. \ Take of Cinnamon-Water %ij. Syrup of Lemons Xy Salt of Wormwood 9ij. Make a Mix¬ ture and let a Spoonful be taken now and then to appeafe a JSaufea, Vomiting, and Anxiety about the Heart in malignant Fevers. Take of the Oil of Cinnamon gut. iij. white Loaf-Sugar giij. Make an Elaofaccharum to be diffolved in ftrong Wine and drank in difficult Labour. It is to be obferved, that an immoderate and unfeafonable Ufe of Aromaticks, like this, dif- pofes tire Stomach to Inflammation, ffirivels its Fibres, and conftringes and ffiuts up the Orifices of its. Glands. Whence, from a Deficiency of the gaftrick Juice, with a fpafmodick and inflamma¬ tory Tenfion of the Stomach, a depraved Con- coCtion necefiarily follows *, the Food produces Labour and Anxiety in the Stomach, and is pro¬ pelled into the Inteftines with great Difficulty ; and this Mifchief at length is communicated over the whole Body to the Prejudice of all its Functions. Moreover, by Aromaticks too freely given the Juices are rendered acrid, thick, and languid in their circulatory Motion, and fo the due Secretion of them being hindered, are brought on Obftruc- tions of the Liver, Kidneys and other Bowels; or Inflammations, Cachexies, Atrophies, Dropfies, me- lancholick$