The power of water-dock against the scurvy : with marks to know that disease in all its states : instances of its being mistaken for other disorders : and rules of life for those afflicted with it / by the late Sir John Hall, M.D.

  • John Hill
Date:
1801
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Credit: The power of water-dock against the scurvy : with marks to know that disease in all its states : instances of its being mistaken for other disorders : and rules of life for those afflicted with it / by the late Sir John Hall, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    E *J '] without flicker to the north, I have always found tend to fix eruptions upon the face, or other uncover- ed parts of the body. Exercife proportioned to the ftrength, and at the bed hours of the day, will prove highly ferviceable -, and moil of all fo in a courfe of the effence of water- dock : walking or riding out always after taking the dofe ; which therefore fhould be taken in thefe cafes at hours mod proper for exercife. This increafes that perfpiration which the dock naturally brings on, and, with care not to get cold after it, will make one dofe as effectual as two or three. The amufement of reading will be as ufeful as too much fixed attention would be bad ; always be- ing upon the guard that this does not intrench upon the hours of exercife. Meats eafieft of digeftion are beft: the.lefs of fak- ed things are eat, at any time, the better ; but during the ufe of any medicine for the cure of this com- plaint fuch things fhould be more particularly avoid- Pepper is beft let alone, and fpirituous liquors, which inflame the diforder always, and in many in- ftances fix it in the face in the moft troublefome man- ner. As to wine and malt liquors, no cure of the fturvy, as has before been faid, will ever be lading which