Practical observations on the cure of hectic and slow fevers and the pulmonary consumption: to which is added a method of treating several kinds of internal hemorrhages / [Moses Griffith].

  • Griffith, Moses, 1699-1785.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Practical observations on the cure of hectic and slow fevers and the pulmonary consumption: to which is added a method of treating several kinds of internal hemorrhages / [Moses Griffith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L 4! ] drachm each, and twenty-five drops of the thebaic tin&ure; and next day the following : R# Olei Uni fine igne exprefifi drachmas fiex, Tinffurcc rhajbarbari vinofee unci am dvmidiam, Aquae puree unciam unam■, Syrupi ex althaea drachmam unam, Boli gallicce drachmam dimidiam. Mifce ; fiat haufius, mane, hora quinta pome- ridiand, 13 hard decubitus fumendus. Adde haufiui no&urno, tintturae thebaiece guttas viginti quinque. i She was much relieved; but the pain returned, though lefs violent, and with very little blood. To the oily draught, which (he took at night, were ,added ten drops more of the thebaic tin&ure. She continued the ufe of thefe medicines; leflening the quantity of. the thebaic tindfcure by degrees; and in fix or feven days was intirely freed from fo ex¬ cruciating a difeale. This difeafe may probably feem to have been - - only internal piles; yet, if it were, an inftance of fo fpeedy a cure of them fhould feem not unworthy to be here mentioned; for (lie continued well, and had no return. But I think the following cafe tends to evince the contrary. It is obfervable, that this patient’s ftoroach bore very large quantities of oil. This probably was the reafon of her fpeedy recovery. o ' CASE /