The ladies physical directory: or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex ... To which is annex'd, a practical discourse on barrenness in women, and impotency ... in men ... Also of miscarriage ... Likewise ample instructions to midwives and nurses ... / By a physician.

Physician

Date:: 1739

Credit: The ladies physical directory: or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex ... To which is annex'd, a practical discourse on barrenness in women, and impotency ... in men ... Also of miscarriage ... Likewise ample instructions to midwives and nurses ... / By a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[;] inor'C 3,gr€csblcj every IVlorningj ^nd st sibout five g Clock every Atternoorij for ^Fortnightj three'Weeks^ oi d. IVlonth together, iis fhe finds prefer, drinking EGl9-fs of White VV^ine^, or r3,ther bitter Wine^ aftdr etich ]3ofe. It is thus tnudB. No. 3. The Corroborating Eleduary. , Tah of Compound Powder of Arum Root^ fre/h made, haf a Dram \ candfd Nutmegs, candfd Ginger, of each two Scruples j candy^d Orange-Peel, candy’d Angelica, of eacn a Dram prepar’d St eel, three Drams; Conferve of Garden Scurvy-grafs, Conferve of Roman Wortnwood, of each three Drams of my Aperitive Species, half an Ounce \ Syrup of eandy’d Ginger, a fufficient ^Mntity to make an Elettuary according to Art. TH IS Eledfuary vifibly revives and ftrengthens the whole Body, increafes the Blood and Spirits, comforts, drives away Melancholy, and makes thofe robuft and ftrong who befjre were weak and pining, fo altering the whole Frame of Na¬ ture for the better, that one would ftand amazM at it. And thus the Cure will be pleafantlyaccomplifhM, without Confinement, Trouble, or Difficulty, and the Patient be re- ftored to perfedl Health, Strength, and Brifknefs,without being any more fatigued all the while flie is rezaining fuch an happy State, than if (lie took no Pvemedyatall, the Medicines being neither difagreeable to the Palate or Stomach, nor occalioning any Diforder whatfoever, if theDiredfions I have given be but duly obferved. All Hyferick Affedlions alfo, and thofe numerous Difor- ders that come under the Name of Fapours, and afflift the fair Sex fo terribly, rnay be effeftualiy cured by them, if taken for four, five, or fix Weeks together, exaftly as I have diredled for the Deficiency of the Terms :, obferving only, that for the moll Part it is proper for Hyfierical Women, to lofe about eight Ounces of Blood from the Arm, the Day before this Courfo of Medicines is enter’d upon, if Strength and other Circum- ftances will by any Means admit of it. And tho’ I have but touched thus flightly on the Hyfierick Difeafe, or as it were by the bye only; yet the Pair Sex afflidbed with it, or with any of the great Number of Diforders that are included in that Name, may be allured that by following the Method and taking the Medicines I have here recommended, they will be effectually and perfedbly cured without any fur- therTrouble, to their own as well as theirFriendsAdmiration: Let them not efteem my Advice the lefs therefore, becaufe 1 have not treated of the Hyfierick Difeafe in a diftindt Chapter$

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