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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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![[ 61] EMPLASTRUM WESICATORIUM. BLIsTERING PLASTER. ‘Take four Ounces of Cantharides; a Pound of Yellow Rofin; a like Quantity of Yellow Wax; a Quarter of a Pound of tried Mutton Sewet ; and feven Ounces of Vinegar. Mixs and make a Plafter according to Art. The Fries, that conftitute this External Ap- plication, are the Product of Spain. Their component Particles are fo fharp, poignant, and cauftic, that, in-a few Hours Space, they caufe the Scarf-Skin to rife on the Part to which they are applied in notable Bladders. Bacuiyy, an eminent Roman Phyfician, wrote an exprefs Treatife on their Ufe and Abufe in Medical Purpofes: Wherein he has laid down Rules very well worth our Attention. The moft excellent Remedy in. the World may be proftituted to prepofterous Practice; which, ’tis too plain, is often the Cafe in Regard of Blifters. To order them indifferently in Fevers, and without Dif- tinction, in any Stage of the Diftemper, does not difplay the ftrongeft Indication of Phy fical G Ability.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33022203_0001_0079.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
