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
- Date:
- [1760]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ *5 ] PILE ELECTARY. ' . / \ Take the quantity of a nutmeg of this eledtary night and morning, fo as to kedjx the body gently open; avoid pepper and all heating things, little or no wine lhould be drank, and your food muft be of the lighter kind. J PILE LINIMENT. # tke P^es are external, apply a little of this liniment upon a piece of fine rag very frequently, which will cool the part, and procure eafe. Setting^ over the fleam of warm water is frequently ferviceable, efpecially if an handful or two of marfhmallow leaves and a little bran be added. POWDER for SWEATS. i. I need not point out the particular circumftances in which dais is necelfary, every one being fenfible how much it is of ervice in colds, achs, and pains in the bones, and the like complaints. ITS DOSE. Above the age of 14 — — from 20 to 30 grains. Between 7 and 14 years — from xo to 20 grains. . Under feven years old decreafe the quantity as your judgment irects i let it be taken at bed-time, with a large draught of white vine whey, or fomething of that kind, and, if very hard to lveat,_ twenty or thirty drops of fpirits of hartfhorn or fal vo- itile in it; but obferve, if there is any fever, the fever powder is aoft proper. PURGING](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3051034x_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
