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Formulae medicamentorum. Or, a compendium of the modern practice of physick. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / [Hugh Smith].

Hugh Smith

Date:: 1772

Credit: Formulae medicamentorum. Or, a compendium of the modern practice of physick. To which is prefixed an essay on the effects and uses of blood-letting / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$In arecent Cough, if the pulfe fhould be full and ftrong, and the patient plethoric, and troubled with a pain in the breaft or fide, or if the fever fhould run too high, a little blood may be drawn to advantage, and re- peated as occafion may require. _/ Pee But the great intention of cure will con-. fift in expelling the caufe of the difeafe, by promoting a gentle diaphorefis, and allaying the irritation in the lungs.—The antimonial ‘powder, No.1. the fixed. and volatile al- caline falts neutralized with lemon juice, with warin diluting liquors, will well tend to divert the humours to the fkin, and opi- ates, with medicines of the incraflating, Flee invifcating kinds will allay the irrita- tion. No, LXxII. K Sal. corn. cerv. vol. 98. Succ. limon. 3iij. Aq. fontan. 4}. — cinnam. {pt. 3]. Sperm. ceti folut. 38. Tina. thebaic. gtt. v. ad x. _Syr. balfamic. 3}. M, ft. hauft. fexta quaque hora fumend, No, LxxIil. K Ol. amyed. dulc. | -Sacchar, 3ij. Terant fimul,$