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 / By Hugh Smith.

  • Hugh Smith
Date:
1781
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    But, though obftru6lions may fometimes be owing to a plethora, we fliall find, chat they ‘much more frequently will depend upon a cache£lic habit, relaxed folids, and a weak- ened circulation; and, in this cafe, the inten- tions of cure will confift in attenuating and expelling the pituitous lentor of the fluids, firengthening the folids, and promoting the circulation: in fliort, reftore the body to a healthy ftate; and this,as a natural excretion, will fucceed. Emetics and gentle ftomach-purges, with medicines of the chalybeate and firengthening kinds, will moft avail.—The following will often fucceed extremely well. No. cx* R Pil. Rufi, —gummof. Sal. chalyb. Rubig. chalyb. ppt. aa^j, 01. fuccin. recSlificat. gtt. xx, Syr. croci, q. f. ut ft. pil. No. xii. c 5j. fumend. iij. vel iiij. mane et vefp. R Tinfl. martis in fpt. fal. ppt. 5!]* Elix. aloes M. capiat coch. minimum (tea-fpoonful) ter quaterve de die ex quovis vehiculo. See alfo relaxed folids, pages 12, 13, and fpontaneous gluten, pages 28^^ 29. I 3 Th^
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