Nature the best physician: a matter of fact, evinced from a most remarkable variolous case, communicated by the learned Dr. Wilmot to the Late Dr. Mead. And now set forth in a poetical narrative / [David Maxwell].

Maxwell, David

Date:: [1756]

Credit: Nature the best physician: a matter of fact, evinced from a most remarkable variolous case, communicated by the learned Dr. Wilmot to the Late Dr. Mead. And now set forth in a poetical narrative / [David Maxwell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ H I Refource to me, ^ thos ev’ry Bone I ake,) Enter’d the Draughts: and Gum Ammoniac,' DifTolv’d with Magifterial Art, Ads the mean while its fcv’reign Part. Then is a, Paregoric given: Which fare muft ope a little Heaven. Aurora now, difperfing Night, Eight times had fpread the purple Light; When fierce excruciating Pain Reign’d o’er the throbbing Plead’s Domain. The Breath grew lliorter, Cough more urgent^ The Arteries no longer turgent: The Suppuration of the Boils Being diftant by fome Scores of Miles. Vain’s All we do, however arch meant, ■ The Face for all the world like Parchment. No Swelling in the Hands, or Feet, A Scene of Mifery compleat! Howe’er, we’ve ftill one main Refouice, Viz. Blisters’ ftimulating Force. Blisters are to the Arms applied. While the Head Legs the Pains divide. Then Plasters, form’d with niceft Art, Involve the Feet, One potent Part Cephalic, Epispastic One, (Aufpicious fhine to-morrow’s Sun \) And Mithridate, and Amber’s Aid, (Thrice-fov’reign Salt) with Ikill’d Parade, Ev’ry Six Hours we anxious give, (Who knows but yet the Boy may live ?) And Oxymel of Squills devote To th’ Eafing of the lab’ring Throat, * Tho’ ev’ry Bone I ake,] A Reader of Sagacity (am I hope I (hall meet with none but what are of tha Clafs) will not infer from hence, that Diafcordium is. o-ood Phyfical Remedy for Pains in the Bones: but wi rather conclude That Property to be afiigned it hei through a Kind of Neceffity, inafmuch as the followin Verfe°muft otherwife have bemoaned itfelf for want of Rhyming Alfociate.$