The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others; particularly the gravel, asthmas, coughs, hoarseness, and a tough morning phlegm: with a particular direction ... for the cure of consumptions ... / [John Hill].

  • John Hill
Date:
1784
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Credit: The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others; particularly the gravel, asthmas, coughs, hoarseness, and a tough morning phlegm: with a particular direction ... for the cure of consumptions ... / [John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t '9;] fult a phyfician : yet it is a very troii* blefome and difagreeable one ; painful to the perfon and giving difgud tq others. The complaint ffiould not be flights ed, for it will encreafe; fometimes it terminates in an adhma ; and fome have been carried off with an imme¬ diate death, by the confequences of it: for by the {training to bring it up, they have broke a veflel, and bled to death upon the indant. If it were alked what medicine would be a cure for this infirmity, and a fafe preventer of its return, the queftion would be difficultly anfwered ; but in the place of fuch a medicine, if the perfon will take Honey, he may be fure both of a prefent relief, and a lading cure, * The bed kind of Honey for this diforder is that of our own produce, but it is neceflary to have it in per- C 3 feftion.