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
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    the violence of the difeafe and urgency of the fymptoms: Afterwards the antimonial pow- der, No. 1. will be advifeable.—Emollient glyfters may be frequently thrown up; and, as it has been found by experience, that ftools have been greatly efficacious to relieve the complaint, if the glyfters fhould not produce a plentiful paflage, it will be neceflary to pre# {cribe medicines that may open the belly. — The eccoprotic cathartics, No. 1v. are well calculated for thefe purpofes: Butas a fevere vomiting often accompanies the difeafe, the ftomach will not always retain a medicine in a liquid form; in which cafe, it will be ne- ceffary to prefcribe a purgative in the form of pills, *; No. xcvi, —R Extra. cathartic. 3]. eS Pat ts Pill, faponac. aa er, XV. - Me: ak ca ieinar” or. ii}. M. ft. Likes No. xv. fumend. ij. vel iij. omni hora donec fatis purgaverint, The femicupium, or warm bath, andemol- : one or a blifter to the abdo- ikewile advifeable and requifite, a Sometimes pa’ ‘ns fimilar to thofe obferved, Pages 118, Fig. as affecting the ftom ach, will sa wife have their feat in the inteftines ; and may depend upon a fpairnodic, rheuma- G 6 eee i
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