The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies ... to which is added a short account of those cases in which bleeding and blisters are really serviceable / [Hugh Smith].

  • Hugh Smith
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[1760]
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Credit: The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies ... to which is added a short account of those cases in which bleeding and blisters are really serviceable / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DIURETIC MTXTURE. t> •* .1. > i This mixture is good in all gravelly complaints, and for the dropfy, heat of urine, pains in the loins, and ftoppage of water. One large fpoonful, or-two upon an emergency, may be given for a dofe, once in fix or eight hours, or night and morning as the cafe requires, mixed in half a pint of marlhmallow drink, if you can procure it, if not, barley water. But obferve, if the pain is vio¬ lent, you will do right firft to give the purging apozem to pro¬ mote ftools, and let them drink plentifully of thin water gruel, which will cleanfe the bowels and urinary paflages, and greatly affift the intention of this mixture* Remember the body {hould always be kept open; and thofe who are fubjed to thefe com¬ plaints, Ihould accuftom themfelves to drink very plentifully of fmall liquors at all times *, which will often of themfelves per- a perfed cure. i V* ytf ELIXIR of VITRIOL. /t. * J / j « ' * * *■ JP J This is efteemed, good to ftrengthen the ftomach and bowels, to create an appetite, and brace up the folids. I ■ - ./ * j IP . V * - : - • £■ I T S DOSE. Above 14 years — — — from 20 to 30 drops. 4 - Between 7 and 14 — —■ from 10 to 20. Under that age — — — from 5 to 7 or 8. It may be given in a little water, or wine and water ; but where the patient can be brought to take it, a cup of chamomile tea is preferable to any other liquid whatever. The proper times for taking it are in a morning falling, an hour before dinner, and two hours after dinner. VJ , -1 • ;• ;nvo»it fu ' / ; - • * ; v ■ ■ * By fmall liquors, I would be underilood to mean any liquor between water and twelve-lhilling table beer. . • : ■] * • > When
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