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Medulla medicinae universae: or, a new compendious dispensatory. Compiled at the command of His Royal Highness the Duke, for the use of the military hospital abroad, during the late war / By the King's physicians and surgeons, the surgeon-general, and apothecary-general, to the Army.
- Theobald, John, -1760
- Date:
- 1752
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medulla medicinae universae: or, a new compendious dispensatory. Compiled at the command of His Royal Highness the Duke, for the use of the military hospital abroad, during the late war / By the King's physicians and surgeons, the surgeon-general, and apothecary-general, to the Army. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 92] PILUL # STypTiczE:. SrypTic Pi LLs. Take three Drams of Burnt-Alum in Powder ; a Dram of Dragon’s-blood powdered ; :and,. with a fufficient'‘Quantity-of theWhite a make a Mafs. From the powerfui Aftringency and agglu- tinating Property of thefe Pills, they are fuc- cefsfully prefcribed in moft Fluxes and He- morrhages. But, then, .care muft be taken not to recur to their Ufe, without the neceflary Caution, in regard of Bleeding, Purging, &c. Five of them may be given Morning and Even- ng. . Dr. Mean, in treating the Bloody Small- Pox, where Nature calls for Remedies endued with the utmoft Stypticity, injoins Alum and Dragon’s-blood in the fame Proportion, as they are directed in this‘Compofition. And, fpeak- ing of Alum, he fays, ‘That this will prove a moft effectual Medicine, in cafe it be fo com-- pounded, that three Parts of Alum be melted with one. of the infpiffated Juice, called Dra- gon’s.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33022203_0001_0110.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
