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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![[ 24§ ] warm vinegar with a double quantity of water, and when it has flood about two hours let warm linen cloths be dipped into it, and ap- plied to the bruife every two hours. The fol- lowing medicine has often been ufed with great fuccefs. Take as much of elder-flowers as you can hold between the thumb and two of the fin- gers, and mix with them four ounces of crumbs of bread ; add to thefe the fame quantity of ca- momile flowers, and St. John’s wort. Boil thefe together, and let poultices of them be applied, mixed with water and vinegar. Another of thefe diforders is ulcers, and thefe arife from a variety of caufes. Some- times they are the efFeils of wounds, and on other occafions they are internal, fo that their caufes cannot be eafily diflinguifhed. When ulcers have been of a long continuance they prey upon the patient, and throw him into a flow fever, which too often ends in a con- fumption. But even in fuch cafes ulcers fhould not be dried up, but purging fhould be ufed ill order to keep the body open. Sudden deaths have often been occafioned in confe- quence of drying up ulcers, and therefore to forward the cure the patient fhould abftain from all forts of falted provifions, and his drink fhould be whey, or wine and water mixed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2875864x_0260.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
