The new domestic medicine ... / abridged from Dr. Buchan; also ... the notes of J. Hunter, and other eminent physicians.
- William Buchan
- Date:
- [between 1790 and 1799?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The new domestic medicine ... / abridged from Dr. Buchan; also ... the notes of J. Hunter, and other eminent physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![E 24° ] dangerous nature, then the patient fhould be put into a warm bath, but the water fhould not be too hot left it become dangerous, as has often happened. Cooling giifters are neceffary to be given from time to time, and they fhould be compofed of common herbs as the moft likely to anfwer the end propofed. He fhould alfo drink of the following compofition : Take one ounce of melon feed, and three ounces of fweet almonds, let them be bruifed together in a mortar, and add to them in fmall quantities one pint of water, after which ftrain the whole through a linen cloth; add another pint of water to what remains, and when it has been ftrained a fecond time, let as much water be added as will make the whole three pints; after this let the whole be mixed together, and half an ounce of fugar added to it. A glafs of thi^ may be taken two or three times a day ; and if the patient is of a delicate conftitution, he may mix with it a little orange water, or any thing elfe of a reviving nature. He fhould drink it in lemonade, or the juice of tamarinds mixed with a little fugar and water, which may be taken by perfons of any conftitution whatever. This drink will be beft taken cold, and at the fame time cloths dipped in rofe water fhould be applied to the forehead, and the temples fhould be rubbed with warm vinegar, which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2875864x_0252.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
