A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt. Easily known from all counterfeits by its bitter taste / Written originally in Latin ... And now published in English, by Joseph Bridges. With animadversions of a late corrupt translation publish'd by Francis Moult.

  • Nehemiah Grew
Date:
1697
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt. Easily known from all counterfeits by its bitter taste / Written originally in Latin ... And now published in English, by Joseph Bridges. With animadversions of a late corrupt translation publish'd by Francis Moult. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    63/112 (page 39)
    ttl, sat hat] andy rto tie] fal | eu recettes. ee (739) Wherefore alfo in the Stomacb- Acb, and other like Pais, nothing is fafer or more effectual than the atorefaid Z4edicine. And fo likewife in the Hypocondriacal Affedtion with Heat. In thefe Difeafes, 1 have fometimes prefcribed the Purging Waters, or the Salt made of them, alone, But ordinarily, not without the aflift-. ance of Bleeding, Vomitimg, and other like Re- medies. It being the part of a prudent Phy/ician, efpecially in great and dangerous Difeafes, not to betruft his Patient’s Health, and the Valuation of his own Fame, to any one Remedy *, tho never fo highly in vogue. Now thefe Remedies are, according unto Indi- cations, infinitely to be vary'd. Some Forms whereof, notwithftanding, the Learned Reader may be pleas'd to look over, as here they fol- low. To quicken a decayed Appetite. Take a Flask of Spaw-water, or a Quart or three Pints of any other Chalybeate Water 5 or D 4 if * Not to betruft—to any one-Remedy. | The Englifh Rea- der is here again admonifh’d, for two Reafons, not to be over bufy with this Medicine, fo as to ufe ic upon all occa- fions; aswe fay, Hand over Head. Firft, becaufe he can very feldom be a competent Judg of his own Cafe ; nor, therefore, whether the Salt be proper for it, or no. And, Secondly, becaufe, tho it fhould be fo, yet he skills not thofe other Remedies ufually neceffary to be joined with it; and fo may be the Author of his own hurt, not fo much in what he doth, as in omitting what he fhould have done. . AAAS o