Volume 177202
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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![this purpofe, an emetic of ipecacuanha, and afterwards a purgative with rhubarb, will be expedient and advifeable. No, Lxxx. RK Rhabarb. gr. xij. > Spec. aromatic. gr. iij, Tinct, thebaic. gtt. xv. Syr. e cort. aurant.q. f. ut ft, bol. noct, hor. decubitus fumend., Vel R Tina. rhei fpirituof, Aq; cinnam, ten, aa 3]: Tinct, thebaic. gtt. xvj.—M., “Vel K Infuf. fen, Zij. Tartar. folub. 3j.. Sal. corn: cerv. vol. gr. viij. Spt. lavend. c. 3j. —M. When a Purging fucceeds to an obftruGted perfpiration, the flow of humours fhould be : diverted from the inteftines to the-fkin ;. the _ irritation.abated, and the mouths of the vef- fels, which throw out their contents into the cavity of the guts, contracted and'clofed. Small dofes of iecacemn ial oiven at night,» at‘ bed-time, “will tend to divert the humours to thefkin; and medicines of the opiate, af- tringent kind will allay the: irritation,- and prevent too-great’-a‘fecretion from the exha- ling vedicls. - os](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30789540_0002_0165.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


