A new practice of physic : wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are orderly described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage and symptom thereof ... the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham, ... / by Peter Shaw.

  • Peter Shaw
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1728
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Credit: A new practice of physic : wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are orderly described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage and symptom thereof ... the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham, ... / by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cured by art, 5tis dangerous. When it proceeds from a flux of tears thro’ the nares, ^tis flopped by prefling, or conflringing the lachrymal glands. 3. If the caufe be internal, proceed as in the coryza. Inje<ft oh amygd. d. or warm milk. Or, Oh amygd. d. laffi. vaccin. act 3 6. op] 3 j. m.f. injeffio. OZINA, • is an ulcer in one or both noftrils, Def. wherein the humor is very acrid or corro- five, fetid, famous, and oftentimes mixed with a bloody mucus. 2. It fometimes proceeds from negleded or caufe ill-managed ulcers, wounds, or contulions in the Dw& noftrils; efpecially in fcorbutic, fcrophulous or venereal habits; in which cafes, they often grow cancerous. 3Tis ufually painful, and a black crufl, with a bloody mucus, fometimes follows upon blowing the nofe; both which, when too long detained, may not only hinder refpiration thro* the nares, but prove the caufe of a polypus. 3. The ulcer often fpreads and eats thro* thzPrcg. ciltf', at other times preys on the feptum nafi, car¬ tilage, and os palati; efpecially in venereal cafes. If the ulcer be recent, and not painful, the humor of a good confidence, and not acrimonious, the cruft foft, and eafy to be excluded, there is room to hope favourably; but if cancerous, and hap¬ pening in bad conftitutions, as particularly if the cafe be fcrophulous or venereal, ^tis likely to prove obftinate. 4. To remedy the acrimony of the humor after proper evacuations, as purging, ifliies, &c. fy Oh amygd. dale. 3 j. oh cafior. 3 j. m. It the pain be great, add camphor, croc, da 3j. opij 3 fi. ut fiat injeffiio. If the ulcer be fetid, and you
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