Formula of prescriptions, and various instructions, for the service and guidance of those who have applied, are applying, or shall apply, to the enemy to human diseases: to which is prefixed, a vindication, concerning the dietical [sic] abstinence, detecting the dangerous tendency of several articles forbidden as pernicious to the human body - in which are included tobacco, salt and salted food, spirituous liquors, all sorts of spices, and coffee / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases.

  • Sylvan
Date:
1813
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Credit: Formula of prescriptions, and various instructions, for the service and guidance of those who have applied, are applying, or shall apply, to the enemy to human diseases: to which is prefixed, a vindication, concerning the dietical [sic] abstinence, detecting the dangerous tendency of several articles forbidden as pernicious to the human body - in which are included tobacco, salt and salted food, spirituous liquors, all sorts of spices, and coffee / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS, ei Advertisement First end general advice Method of keeping the liquid | Mixture of the liquid, and the quality of celestial rain-water Timein which the rectifying spirit must be made use of— Chronical disorders and several others Proportion of water for complaints of the lungs—Commos drink in complaints of the lungs—Other drink instead of medicine | | ae Advice respecting Diet and Regimen—General caution— Indicative marks by which the liquid may be known to be anfit for use General advice for all complaints— Washing of the eyes Opthalmia, or poultice for the eyes—Blisters how to be attended—Cephalartic or head-ache snuff coi Odontalgia, or tooth-ache—Attention concerning the liquid, if received warm | Preparation of drink, if prescribed, in chronical diseases— General advice and caution—Directions to take medicine with the feetin water Directions for those whoare confined in bed—Ditto in inter- mitting fever—Ditto for women in labor Directions in hard labor—Ditto for the new born infant For the bathing or washing of any part—Poultices Diet of chronical disorders, df any other—Detection of the dangerous use of tobacco Snufhine Chewing Smoking Of the offensive ufe of salt food, salt, &c. Ditto of spirituous liquors | | Concerning all sorts of spices Of the use of coffee and its fatal effects Investigation cuncerning the transcendant cause ‘of human uncautiousness of their food, &c. : * Conclusion, concerning the cause of human miseries; sup- ~ plication of the celestial mercy to interfere and alleviate and terminate human affliction, Tete