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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    | “A fimilar ale. ‘ 0h Take of the preceding powder, twelve ounces. and of fine ale, three or four gallons; make a ~medicated ale for common drink. | Or, Take four drachms of the fame powder; with half a pint of ftrong white wine; and make an in- fufion; of which, the patient may drink an. ounce every two hours. : To thele belong, Elixir proprietatis ; Salts, volatile, oily 5 ae Sm aromatics: Spirits, volatile, acrid, oily 3. — ————« aromatic 5: see pages 236, 244,' 253- _ An aromatic cordial atid mixture. Take the oils of lemons, oranges, and cinnamon,: of each three drops ; oils of lavender and junipery of each two drops; and,. with fix drachms of fugar, make an olgeofaccharum ;, then mix therewith rob of elder, and juniper, of each three ounces 5. fpirit of falt, a drachm ; citron, orange, and cin- namon-water, of each two ounces; and of mint-. water, ten ounces: afterward, take an. ounce of this every two hours. . An aperient acid decoétion. Take of the frefh expreffed juices of the frefh' fliced herbs of fumitory, fuccory, dandelion, and: common forre]l, of each a pound; of cream of: tartar, halfia pound; and boil them on a gentle fire to one half; then mix with ten-ounces of *thts decogtion, ten ounces of elder juice: of which, » half