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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    [ 4 ] We feek from the remoteft part of the world, medicines of harfh and vi¬ olent operation, for our relief in fe- veral diforders, under which w7e fhould never fuffer, if we would ufe what the Bee colledfs for us at our doors; and as in many others, which tho’ no care could make us efcape, the fame in¬ nocent and pleafmt juice would cure. For the patient tortured with the gravel and ftone, when common me¬ dicines fail of their effect, we feek from the Brafils, the Paeira Brava; or, ac¬ tuated by delpair rather than hope, fwallow the poifon of the Spanilh Cantharides : drugs which while they promife relief tear to pieces the w7hole conftitution. All the while we ne- gleft what is fufficiently known to thofe who pradtiie phyhck, that he who will rake a lpoonful of Honey before his breakfaft, will never be fubject to that complaint. Atrica is ran-