The practice of the British and French hospitals : viz. the Edinburgh, military, and naval hospitals, l'Hotel Dieu, la Charité, and les Invalides. Containing a select body of useful ... medicines ... with practical remarks ... reflections on the use and abuse of bleeding and blisters; cautions ... to be observed previous to cold-bathing; and a ... posological table ... / By the author of the Practice of the London Hospitals.

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1775
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Credit: The practice of the British and French hospitals : viz. the Edinburgh, military, and naval hospitals, l'Hotel Dieu, la Charité, and les Invalides. Containing a select body of useful ... medicines ... with practical remarks ... reflections on the use and abuse of bleeding and blisters; cautions ... to be observed previous to cold-bathing; and a ... posological table ... / By the author of the Practice of the London Hospitals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Take of fharp pointed dock roots, an ounces ~ Peruvian, and tamarifk bark, of each fix drachms ; agrimony-leaves, a handful; and boil them in as. much water as will make a pint and a half of ftrained deco€tion ; with which, mix an ounce of. the fyrup of-kermes: afcerward, drink half an ounce every hour, : : The following corroborants the relaxed intefines. ‘Take a drachm and a half of rhubarb; with an ounce and a half of ftoned.myrobalans; and boil them in as much water as will make three ounces of exprefied decoGion; with which, mix twelve drachms of the fyrup of fuccory with rhubarb 5, for a draught. | For diet, fee pages 230, 231. Ina NEPHRITIS. An aperient antiphlogifiic decoction. Take frefh chervil, brook lime, and pellitory leaves, of each two handfuls ; wood forrel, fuccory, — and great burdock roots, of each two ounces; red carduus feed, bruifed, of each fix drachms ; and boil them for half an hour, in as much water as will make three pints of ftrained decodtion: of which, let the patient take two ounces every fifteen muriutes, (Or, +o tie fe . Take of grafs roots, fix ounces; bruifed melon. feed, an ounce and a half; liquorice, an ounce ; and boi] them in fuch a quantity of water as will make three pints of ftrained decoction: this ferves for the:fame ules, and may be taken as the former: Proper remedies. Agrimony. _ », The fmaller daify. Vervain mallow. — Bugle. Liadies mantle. + «). « Chervil. Marthmallows. ~ Common wild carrof.. Brook. limes. - Dandelion.