The medical pocket-book : for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D.
- John Elliot
- Date:
- MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical pocket-book : for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![up with a bandage ; refl and an horizontal poflnre are proper. Prolapfus Uteri. ° Treatment as in the preceding cafe, l*efla- ries are alio proper to be worn. PUERPERAL] r c r PUTRID 1 Fever- ^ce l'sver' (QUICKSILVER Vermifuge, opening, fiom half an ounce to two or more, in thff morning. Q U I N S Y. Symptoms. Inflammation of the throat; wit'v pain, great heot, tumour, rediief-i, difficulty in fwallowing, a;td fever. The uvula fometimes rel axed and inflamed ; the face rrd. Treatment. Bleed large!/, or according 10 exigency; open the b c'y ; blifiers to the back, and near the part ; gargle wi;h fpt. U\ amnion, and decoct. p<ct. ftrong of the former ; poul- tice the part with bread and tniik, to which carrphire may be added, and the volatile liniment may -Afo be applied. If it fuppurate, ceafe to evacuate; and inhale emollient fleams. When ripe open the abfeefs; afterwards gargle with tind. rofar. and tinct. myrrh. RATTLESNAKE ROOT. Diaphoretic, antifeptic, from v gr. to a fcruple. Alfo in anti- feptic gargles. RESIN of Aloes. Cathartic one fcruple, or more. Deobflruent, from v. gr. to half a fcruple. RESIN of Bark. Corroborant, febrifuge, &c. from v. gr. to a fcruple. RESIN cfGuaiacum Antirheumatic, Alterative, deobflruent from v. gr. to xv. RESIN of Jalap RESIN of Stammony Cathartic from v. gr. to a fcruple. RHEUMATISM Acute. Symptoms. Rigor, (hivering, fever, third, cofiivenefs, wander- ing gnawing pains, with fwclling ar-d rednefj in the part aftecied, the pain worfetowards night and in bed. Treatment. Bleeding; Medicines with fal c. c, nitre, cam- phire, guaicum, arstimon-glf, or the like; laxatives, and opi- ates](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21117743_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


