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Medical reform, or Physiology and botanic practice, for the people
Medical reform or Physiology and botanic practice for the people Author:John Stevens Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and one tea-spoonful of sugar. Mix these well, and if too thick to swallow, add a little warm water. The vapour bath is singularly beneficial in dysentery, an... more »d may he frequently administered, and will afford much relief to the patient. After the bath, and when the patient is rubbed dry, apply stimulating ointment, the third preparation of lobelia, or No. 6, over the surface. In less severe attacks of this disease and in all cases of the chronic form, even of one or two years' continuance, I have Ever been successful in. curing it by the following prescription : — Raspberry leaves two good handfuU Boil one hour in Water one quart Strain and add Pulverised tormentil root one drachm Gum catechu three grains Tincture of myrrh one drachm Cayenne pepper one tea-spoonful Dose, from a table-spoonful to half a wine-glassful four times a day. Pill No. 1, at night and morning. All the astringents of Thompson, found in No. 3, are proper in this disorder ; but this perhaps is most common, and one of the best to be found in England. Common allspice, nutmegs, and cloves, are all highly beneficial to mix in the food or physic during this disorder. It is necessary, also, in almost every stage of the complaint, to keep up a gentle perspiration, or moisture of the skin. As the disease is sometimes occasioned by translations of morbific matter to the intestines, means must be used to throw them off by the excretion of the skin. For this purpose let teas be frequently given made of angelica, raspberry leaves,and ginger, and a hot brick, wrapped in cloth wet with vinegar, be put to the feet. As soon as the cutaneous vessels have become thus stimulated, a portion of the morbific agents are translated from the mucous membrane of the intestines, and expelled through thi...« less