Volume 1

Every man his own physician : being, a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies, for every disease incident to the human body, with plain instructions for their common use / By John Theobald. Compiled at the command of the Duke of Cumberland.

  • Theobald, John, -1760.
Date:
1766
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Every man his own physician : being, a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies, for every disease incident to the human body, with plain instructions for their common use / By John Theobald. Compiled at the command of the Duke of Cumberland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BLOODY FLUX. . ) Signs of. Generally begins with coldnefs and fhivering, fue- ceeded by a quick pulfe, and intenfe thirft. The ftools are greafy, and fometimes frothy mixt with blood, with _ filaments intermixt, which have the appearance of mel- ted fuet, and are attended with intolerable gripings, and a painful defcent as it were of the bowels. | METHOD OF CURE. BLEED. firft, then give the following vomit ; half a drachm of powder of ipecacoanha, work it off with _ chamomile tea, repeat this vomit every other day, for three or four times. On the intermediate days, between each vomit, let the fick perfon take a large fpoonful of the following mucilage, warm, every hour: diflolve half an ounce of gum arabic, and half an ounce of gum tragacanth, in a pint of barley water, over a gen- tle fire. Clifters made of fat mutton broth are of great fervice, the fick perfon muft abftain, from malt and {piri- tuous liquors. MEAD, Peerse Besdkoe arr ee nog eS ~eet BOILS. APPLY a plaifter of diachylon with the gums, once every day, till they are cured. ‘To prevent their return a few dofes of cooling phyficare proper. | WISEMAN. BRUISES, Internal. . TAKE a Jarge fpoonful of cold drawn linfeed oil, two or three times in aday. The patient muft alfo be blooded to the quantity of eight or ten ounces. And if the fymptoms are violent the bleeding mutt be repeated at difcretion. SYDENHAM, ONE Ret Cone GEE eer re ee ee BRUISES, External. ; BATHE the part with a little fpirits of wine and camphire, which in. flight cafes will effect a cure, ee ‘ : | that