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 the.fpirit of lavender, three ounces; fa] armoniac, -two drachms; tincture of caftor, half an ounce; lavender water, fix.drachms: and rub the parts thoroughly with them, when mixed, Or, Take: cummin and melilot-plaifter, and fine galbanum, of each an ounce; oil of caftor, half an-ounce; makeia plaifter thereof, and apply it to the part. affected, owhent well rubbed. Take the infused oils); of | wormwood, dill, Diet saaise catmint, rue, {melling trefoil, naflok, faffron, orice; earth worms, fpikenard, and mi- neral oil, of eachadrachm ; Agrippa’s, Arthanitas’s, martial, and nerve ointment, of each fix aston and make aliniment. . Sharp plailters of cum- ‘Shacp Staiftecs of me- min, lilot. -— of galbanuin. Bliftering plaifter, &e. |. dn Manngss. - - Ad corroborant elediuarys ci Take’of the Peruvian bark, two drachms; Mae gellanic bark, three drachms ; conferve of rofemary, ‘an ounce; fycup of Kermes, a fufficient quantity ; let the patient take a drachm every three hours. Or, Take of diafcordium, a drachm ; ; Oleofaccharum, made of effence of lemons, two drathms ; 3 preferved. elecampane, an. ounce; the fyrup of the five opening roots, fuch a quantity as will make a conferve: which is to be taken as the former. Or, : Take of preferved ginger, three ounces; pre- ferved ‘orange peel, two ounces ; nutmeg, half an ounce; Fernelias’s fyrup of mugwort, as ‘much 2s. wil} sna a comferye: which’ is leo be taken as the former. Or, . . Take Venice-treacle, Mefue’s electuary of four | ingredienis, of each an ounce; conferve of worm- wood} half an ounce; angelica root, two drachms; ‘y rup ~ 7