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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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![hering to its fides, or fuCtuating in its ca- vity ; or putrid and bilious humours, lodg~ ing in the prime viz, will leflen the appetite, and diminifh the defire for food. Another particular fpecies of a Depraved Appetite, and want of digeftion, will arife from a continual ufe of f{pirituous liquors 3 which will at leneth give a rigid contraction and acallous infenkbil ity to the coats of the ftomach; whenee innumerable and often irre- mediable coniplaints. When a want of appetite is owing to a relaxation of the ftomach,. fuch medicines are required, which, by their aftiingency, may gradually brace itup, and, by their warmth, encreafe the contration of its mufcular coats.— But as in general the prime via are loaded with a pituitous colluvies, it will be expedient firft to cleanfe and deterge the ftomach by emetics, and the gentle ftomach purge’s. No. Lxxiv. K Vin.ipecacuanh. 3}. Capiat mane jejun. ventricul. fuperbi~ bend infuf. rad. raphaniruft, ad vomition. excitand,. | Vel BR Sal’. vitriol, Sj. ; Aq. fontan. 5 ij 8. - “Syr. balfam. 3]. M. ft. hauft. fumend, ut fupra..](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30789540_0002_0156.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
