"^:■». • <«ee.'.. ■ "'•M' V_""J^ - '•'' ..." J ;"'.;,J'^,'^r/d;- •< ■■ . ■•' v...-. ■■ - ■ if. %£d%f:\ di &•'£?£ • A? V v w> i * ?V;.ti »*f^ #.. I ^.fcA V_ 15 * T H E ^.FAMILY ADVISER; i A PLAIN AND MODElNi PRACTICE OF PHYSIC* ^T1£ALCULATED■ *t>R \ * % * • . S k * * THE USE OF. PRIVATE FAMILIES, " <■ A*C%MMOD*TI^ . TO THE DISEASES.OF AMERICA. By HENRY WILK1NS, M. D. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, Mr. WESLEY'S PRIMITIVE PHYSIC, REVISE p-.^'1'"''''7-^ ■Atei-/^;----..*' ' P HI L A D E L P HIA d' ^/;} £'? 0 AiV * Printed by Parry Hall, no. 149. in chesku? STREET; AND SOLD BY JoHN DlCKINS, NO, 182. RACE STREET, NEAR SIXTH STREET. M» DCC.XCIII-. w ?7l€l PREFACE. TH E fubftance of the following pages is chiefly drawn from thofe excellent authors, Home, Cullen, and McBride; whofe names alone are a furficient recommendation. They were executed at the requeft of our friend Mr. Afbury. The work contains a good defcription of each diforder, and its remote caufes, as far as known. The proximate caufe is generally omitted, being unintelligible to thofe who are unacquainted with medicine, of little ufe, and much difputed by phyficians. The cure is as fimple as poffible, fo as not to interfere with ef- ficacy : few medicines being recommended, and i» compounds where they could be omitted. To this is prefixed the management of the patient, about which attendants are ufually more at a lofs than about the medicine. The medicines that are generally ufeful are put at the end, numbered and referred to, to pre- vent frequent repetition, but thofe that are not fo general are inferted in the reading. This will be much more agreeable to the reader, than a general reference or a general infenion. A 2 A few LV Preface. A few diforders are omitted, becaufe they are not proper to this country, or becaufe they are unmanageable even in the hands of phyficians, or for other as good reafons; otherwife it is as complete a fyftem as Dr. Cullen has treated on. It is principally defective in ftyle, partly on account of attempting to fuit it for every body, and partly for want of time to take a copy from it. It is recommended to the Methodift fociety in particular, by- the author, their Friend.. Philadelphia,) 3793- S THE THE FAMILY ADVISER, &c> CHAP. I. OF FEVERS IN GENERAL. FEVERS admit of a double divifion : firft, with refpeft to their du.ation ; as into Continued, Remittant and Intermittant. Continued fevers go on to their end, without any very obvious change for better or worfe, in a period of twenty four hours. • Remittant fevers, either obvioufly abate at fome pe- riod or periods during twenty four hours, or are like a number of ffiort continued fevers comprehended under one, abating once in the courfe of two or three or more days. Intermittants go perfectly off every day and return the next, which is called a Quotidian ; or go off every other day, leaving an intermediate well day, called Tertians ; or go off every fourth day inclufive, leaving two well days, called Quartans. In this manner they go and come till they change or finifh their courfe. The fecond divifion of fevers refpefts the ftate of the fyftcm : as Inflammatory fevers, Low or Nervous fevers, and Putrid fevers. Inflammatory fevers fhow more or lefs the fymptoma of general inflammation ; ftrong action and an abfence of every fymptom of putridity and infenfibility; they are moft commonly continued. Lotv or Nervous fevers fhow a general debility, irr- fenfibility and irregularity, without any fymptoms of A 3 uk ( 6 ) the fluids tending much to difTblution ; though a flight and flow tendency is obfervable, after it has continued for fome time. Putrid fevers fometimes fhow fome figns of inflam- mation and aftion for a while ; but always with early fymptoms of putrefaction, viz. blacknefs of the gumj and tongue ; from being lined with foetid fecretions: a blacknefs and fcetor of what is difcharged by vomit- ing, which ufually attends: and the fame appearance of many of the fecretions and excretions, particularly the ftools; to which may be added a quick fucceeding debility. CHAP. II. OF FEVERS PARTICULARLY. INFLAMMATORY FEVER. THIS fever moft frequently attacks the young in. the vigour of their life ; fuch as are of a ruftic fanguine athletic conftitutlon, who indulge themfelves in hying freely: though fufficient caufes will bring it on in fome degree, in almoft any conftltution and way of living. It attacks at all feafons, but moft frequent- ly in the fprlng and beginning of fummer. Caufes. Heat and cold alternately, or varloufly ap- plied, fatigue, anger, immoderate ufe of fpirituous li- quors, watching, &c. Set. Symptoms. It difcovers itfelf by a iaffitude, with a dull fenfation of the body, debility, alternating chills and heats, tremors, pains throughout the whole body, but more particularly about the fhoulders, back, knees and head. Thefe are fucceeded by an intenfe and burning heat, an inextinguifhable thirft, inflamed eyes, tumefacdion or fulnefs of the face, ficknefs and vomiting, inquietude, anxiety, full and ftrong pulfe, dry ikin,red (thoughfometimes watery) urine, rough, dry, yellow, or dark coloured tongue, covered with a cruft, difficult breathing, coftivenefs, cough, watching, de- lirium, ftupor ; and if the fever is not checked, a co- ma, ma, or conftant tendency to flecp, tremors, partial convulfions, as of the hands, Sec. Id -cough, involunta- ry difcharges of the belly and bladder fucceed and clofe the fcene in death. This is a defcriptlon of it in its moft violent degree. In the greateft number of cafes we meet with it far more moderate; a ftrong pulfe, fick ftoirSeh and thirft being the chief fyrnptoms. Management. The patient fhould be confined to his bed, in a cool, dark and filent room ; the coolnefs to be regulated by the feafon. He fhould abftain from all kinds of meats and ftrong drinks. For food; panada, barley, jellies, light unfeafoned puddings and pies, &c. may be given in fmall quantity. For drink; lemonade, vinegar and water, barley water, herb teas with lemon juice, apple water, tamarind water, jelly and water, &c. any of which may be given hrgely. Cure. If the fever be violent, or the patient as de- fcribed in the'firft paragraph, from half a pint to two thirds of blood fhould be taken away (according to the age and cuftoms of the patient) as quick as pofii- ble ; which may be repeated again and again in leffer quantities, if the degree of fever require it, in the firft three or four days. After the firft bleeding let him take one ounce of glauber falts, which will frequently exclude the neceflity of another bleeding. After this dofe of falts, it is to be remembered that the bowels mould be opened daily if required, by a common glyf- ter. If after one bleeding end a dofe of falts, the fe- ver does not go off, which it feldom does, let the pa- tient have one of the powders No. i. every two hours, provided they will remaia on his ftomach : but if they will not, give the fallne mixture No. 2. two table-fpoon- fuls every two hours; and after tlds has been given fometime, if the patient's fkin become foft and nioift, it fhould be continued in, odnervdic lay it afide and try the powders again. If tl'efe when given for a day or two do not lefTen the fever, or if they will not re- main, and the faline mixture is ineffectual, and withal bleeding has been pradlifed as far as prudent ; it will then be necefiary to put a bliftsr to the back of the neck, ( 3 ) neck, and to foak the patient's feet in lukewarm wa- ter for an hour if he can bear it; after this try the powders, or the mixture again, and they will then have their only chance, and in many cafes will be ef- feaual. In the flighter cafes of this fever,^ fuch as I have faid, we moft commonly meet with. I^the patient will allow of it, one bleeding will be proper, after which or in fuch as will not allow bleeding, give a puke, two grains of tartar emetic taken in half an hour, or ten grains of ipecacuana, or half a table-fpoonful of anti- monial wine taken in the fame time as the tartar, will anfwer; after which give the powders or the mixture, and open the bowels with a dofe of falts. After the fever has gone off, which ufually is attended with a fweat, if the patient is much reduced, let him take a tea-fpoonful of bark in port wine, or in water eve- ry three hours till he has taken an ounce, after which he may take one or two more at longer intervals. He fhould ufe gentle exercife in a carriage, and return gradually to his bufinefs and diet. There is a fever which has the appellation of a fyv nochus, which in the firft ftage is of the above type, but after a while quickly changes to the putrid, to be hereafter defcribed. In fuch a cafe all the manager ment and cure above fhould be relinquifhed, and the management and cure for that immediately adopted. C H A! P. III. NERVOUS OR LOW FEVER. rnpHOSE of relaxed fibres and weak nervous fyftem, X are the perfons moft fubjecl: to this fever. Caufes. Exceffive evacuations, repeated falivations, immoderate venery, depreflions of the mind from grief, watching and night ftudy, humid ftagnant air of fubterraneous apartments, indigeftable food, efpecially fuch as is unfit for nutrition ; as of cold watery fruits and vegetables ; thin cloathing, rainy feafans, foft moilt winter, &c. Symptoms* f 9 > Symptoms. This complaint approaches with dejection of mind, lofs of appetite, oppreffion, fleepleffnefs, in- voluntary groans, repeated fighs, fear, unufual lafiitude after motion, and alternate fucceffions of cold and heat. After fome days a fwimming or pain in the head comes on, fickftomach and vomiting of infipid phlegm, great weaknefs, moderate heat, inlenlibility to thirft, frequent, weak, and fometimes intermitting pulfe, a moift tongue, fometimes red and at others covered with a white or yellowifh tough mucus ; dry lips, oppieffion about the breaft and difficult breathing, pale watery or whey like urine, a dull fjenfe of pains a- bcut the breaft and head, dozing, delirium, rednefs and warmth of the face, whilft the feet are cold ; a tendency and difpoiition to be eafily and frequently dis- turbed by dreams :—after thefe have taken place and continued fome time, they aie followed by im- moderate fweats and wafting laxes, great dulnefs and flothfulnefs of the external and internal fenfes, anxie- ty and fainting. And now nature being exhaufted by the diforder, the tongue trembles, the extremities from a coldnefs become cold, the nails turn livid, fight and hearing perifh, the delirium turns to a coma, the belly and bladder are involuntarily evacuated, topi- cal convulfions come on, and death clofes the fcene, ufually before the fourteenth day. The fymptoms in- creafe in the evening.:—The delirium is only a mutter- ing continually ; quite different from the delirium of the former fever : though in this there is a great in- fenfibility, and towards the end a lofs of fight and hearing, yet at times in the beginning there is a great and preternatural fenfibility to light and noife : fome- times an eruption like millet feed appears in this fever, without any alteration for better or worfe. A con- tinuance of this fever has brought on temporal idiotifm, which vanifhed with the debility. Management. The patient fhould be confined to his bed in an airy darkened room, and kept agreeably warm or cool, according to the feafon. His room, bed and body clothes, face, hands and feet fhould be kept. f 10 ) kept clean by the means fuited therefor. His diet fhould be light though nourifhing, and given frequent- ly, rather than in large quantities at once ; it fhould be mild : chicken water and broth, or beef tea may be given if the patient defires it, and the effeft proves it to be ufeful; but the general flock of food fhould confifl of the various preparations of mild, digeftable, nourifhing vegetables, fufficiently well known to eve- ry houfe-keeper ; thefe fhould be fuited to the pati- ent's appetite, and changed fo as not to pall him with any one. Wine and water may be ufed from the be- ginning, though then it may only be given to allay the thirft, and fhould be made weak : five or fix times a day a cup full may be given, even though the patient do not afk for it ; but as the ftrength fails it fhould be made ftronger and ftronger, and given in as large quantity as a perfon in health could take. When the wine has not the effect, of increafing the fymptoms and rendering the pulfe too quick, it may be fafely conti- nued in.—Claret is the beft. Cure. A gentle vomit of ten grains of ipecacuana in a little water may be given in the beginning, and may be repeated the next day. The bowels fhould be opened with twenty or thirty grains of rhubarb, and coftivenefs continually prevented by fmall dofes of the fame medicine. A blifter fhould be applied to the fide early in the difeafe, and when it has drawn, the water let out, and the part dreffed with a colewort leaf or a little Turner's cerate ; after this another may be applied to the other fide, or to the back of the neck, provided no bad fymptoms follow the firft, if they do, blifters fhould be laid afide till a ftate of infenfibility comes on, when they fhould be applied fucceffively, as long as they are attended with advantage. If the patient's fliin be dry in the beginning, let him take three or four grains of James' powder, in thick fyrup three or four times a day, warning it down with fnake- root tea ; yet not fo as to fweat the patient. If the James' powder is not to be had, one-eighth of a grain of tarter emetic may be ufed in its Mead. When the dc- bility ( I' ) bility increafes, let the patient begin and take two table fpoonfuls of the decoction of bark No. 3. every hour or two, putting a little mint water with It, and when the patient has taken this fome time, let him take the bark in fubftance with wine, one teafpoon- ful of bark in two tablefpoonfuls of old claret every two or three hours : this or an infufion made by put- ting two ounces to a quart of wine, andufing the fame quantity poured off clear, fhould be continued in till the patient perfectly recovers, only he may take feldomer. When the patient has been much haraffed for want of fleep, have his feet bathed at evening in tepid water, and give him ten or twelve drops of laudanum. This practice may be continued in as long as it proves effec- tual in procuring fleep. In thofe cafes that proceed from exceffive evacuations there is little hope, fcarce any thing fhould be attempted, but the ftrengthening plan. The patient fhould carefully fhun all the caufes, and ufe a generous diet, and regular varied exercife of body and mind, and be fparing of his ftrength. CHAP IV. PUTRID FEVER. THOSE who are of a relaxed habit and gloomy difpofition ; thofe who have been debilitated by living upon bad victuals, by venery, famine, labour, or lofs of reft, &c. eafily take this fever, (which is caufed by putrid contagion or noxious air,) and diffi- cultly emerge from it. Symptoms. An intenfe confuming, tho'remitting heat, particularly inwards, fmall, frequent, and unequal pulfe without ftrength, throbbing of the arteries that run along the neck and temples, great proftration of ftrength, heavinefs without fleep ; and when fleep does take plage, little or no refrefhment is gained from it; 4 an ( 12 ) ?n rnxious, deje&ed, and defponding mind, naufea, and vomiting of black bile, pain of the head and tem- ples, rednefs of the eyes, and pain about their fock- ets, duflcy countenance, noife in the ears, interrupted breathing, with fighs and foetid breath; pains about the ftomach, joints and back, difficulty of lying in one pofture, trembling, delirium. At firft a whitifh tongue which quickly changes blackifh, whilft the lips, teeth and gums are befet with a tough difagreeable mucus ; an inextinguifhable thirft attends with a bitter maw- kifh tafte, which is communicated to the drink. The urine, on the increafe of the diforder, becomes blackifh or red with a fediment : The fweats become fcetid, the ftools livid, black or bloody, and very fcetid : and if the fever goes on, a thrufh and ulcers attack the mouth and throat ; blood is difcharged from different parts, a hiccough and other partial convulfions come on, which death fcarce ever fails to follow. Management. The patient fhould have frefh air ad- mitted by keeping the door of his chamber open, if it is not too cold, and by opening his windows, if it is fummer time, and the weather clear. Salt petre or vinegar fhould be burned upon the hearth in winter, and boughs of trees and flowers thrown about the room in fummer. His hands, face and feet fhould be wafhed daily in vinegar and water, or wine and water; he fhould be fhaved frequently, and fhifted in bed and body clothes as frequently as can be afforded, if it is daily: in fine, the greateft attention fhould be paid to cleanlinefs.— His food fhould be moftly of acid vegetables, fuch as pleafe his appetite and ftomach beft. His dtink fhould be port wine diluted ; this he fhould drink more and more of, as he becomes more debilitated, fo as to make it his drink and medicine both : a quart a-day may be ufed ; this he fhould continue in for fome time after he has recovered, though in fmaller dofes : A frefh airing every day, after recovery, will be highly ufeful. Cure. An emetic of eight grains of ipecacuana and one of tartar emetic, or half a table fpoonful of anti- monial ( 13 ) monial wine, fhould be given as quick as poflible, af- ter which twenty five or thirty grains of rhubaib, or two drams of cream of tartar, or four grains of calo- mel and eight of ja!ap, fhould be given in a little jelly, to open the bowels, after which the decoction of bark No. 3. fhould be given, two table-fpoonfuls with a lit- tle mint water, every hour ; if the ftomach bears this well, and the fymptoms of putrefaction and debility increafe, the bark in fubftance fhould be ufed: a tee- fpoonful in lemon juice and mint water every two hours. But if the ftomach does not bear the bark, or if the heat and fever be confiderable, apply a blifter to the breaft, and give one of the following pills be- tween the times of taking the bark, viz. Camphor beat to an impalpable powder, with common fpirits, twenty four grains, powdered feneca root as much ; nake them up with jelly or fyrup, and give them as directed. If the ftomach ft ill refufes the bark in the above ways, try it in triple quantities in glyfters, or try the vinous tincture, No. 4. The bark is the only chance, we are therefore to petfift in its ufe till a cure is made. Glyfters of fait, fugar, and decoction of bitter herbs are to be ufed to keep the bowels regular, or fome of the gentle purges mentioned above ; but it will be oft- en beft to ufe firft one and then the other, according to circumftances. In cafe this fever fhould be of a re- mittant foim, the remiffions fhould be greatly attend- ed to, and a double quantity of bark given if poflible. Sometimes a lax with diftenfion of the belly comes on after a while, in fuch a cafe the belly fhould be foment- ed with bitter herbs, boiled and applied warm, and three grains of ipecacuana, with five drops of lauda- num, given every four hours. Sometimes fpots break out in this fever, when it has been termed the Spotted Fever ; at other times there is a yellownefs of the fkin, then it is termed the yellow or the Weft India fever. In this laft cafe the fymptoms of putridity are in this country more lenient, and a confiderable vomiting fometimes hinders the giv- B imj ( H ) ing of medicine : in this cafe a blifter to the breaft has been found effectual to flop the vomiting ; but in ge- neral the treatment is the fame as recommended .ibovc. In the end of thefe fevers, fome phyficians recom- mend blifters to roufe the patient : if they are appi'ed, the fkin fhould not be pe;ded off as is fometimes done, but only opened to d fcde.rge the water, and then dreffed with Turner's cerate. But the beginning or firft ftage is the moft proper for blifters. CHAP. V. REMITTANT FEVER. CAUSES. Expcfure to violent heat of the fun for hours together, or the effects of a cool evening, and other fimilar caufes after preceding fummer heat. Thus there is no difference in the real caufes of this fe- ver and mtermittants, except in the degree and time of their application. Symptoms. Alternating cold and heat, followed by a continued heat, and a fever. Sometimes a delirium comes on at the firft attack. The patient is diftreffed with thirft and vomiting, ufually of bile, pain of the head, back and joints ; the region of the ftomach fwclls, and becomes painful ; the tongue is white and moid, and the patient is harraffed with fkeplcffnefs ; the fkin and eyes are of a yellow caft ; the pulfe is fometimes a little hard, and feldom full; the bowels are fometimes bound, fometimes loofe: with thefe fymptoms the fever ufually proceeds, for 2, 3 > 4> 5> 6, 7 or 8 days, at one of which times, after a little fweat it remits, and the patient becomes evidently better after a few hours have elapfed ; com- monly in the evening the acceffion comes on, fometimes with, at other times without a chill, and fo goes on as before : In this manner, that is, by acceffions and re- mifiions, the fever goes on to its final period. A copioui ( *5 ) A copior.s fweat, difcharge of blood from the nofe, or an univerfal yellownefs, commonly attend the con- clufion of it. After the fever has gone off, a great h'ghtnefs at- tends, fo that the patient can fcarce walk ; °rheumatic pains, dropfical fwellings, &c. fometimes follow. _ Management. The patient fhould be kept cool and airy, he fhould have plenty of acid drinks, as lemonade, jelly, tamarind water, &c. and for food, he fhould have toafted bread moiflened with a little tea, baked fruits, rice, fago, barky, &c. but thefe, though proper, will feddom have a place, as the patient can fcarce ever con- tain on his ftomach what his little appetite inclines him to take : but the toaft has often been found to flay, when nothing elfe would. Cure. If the vomiting be confiderable, a little ca- - momile tea may be given to promote it a moment or two, that a remiffion may be procured to give the fa- line mixture No. 2. every hour one table-fpoonful. When this fits on the ftomach pretty well, ten drops of antimonial wine and a little mint water may be ad- ded to each dofe, and the medicine continued in : but if the vomiting is only flight, the beft way to procure a remiffion of the fymptoms will be to give an emetic, one tea-fpoonful of antimonial wine, or one table-fpoon- ful of the following folution, viz. tartai emetic two grains, water fix table-fpoonfuls, may be given every ten minutes until it operates, after which the mixture may be given in the manner directed with antimonial wine. If the vomiting refift every thing given, or If a remif- fion does not take place in a few days, blifters fhould be ufed ; on the breaft in the firft cafe, on the back of the neck in the laft. Sometimes a bundle of mint Hew- ed, and applied to the breaft, has been found ufeful in checking the vomiting, therefore it may be tried be- fore a blifter. Collivenefs fhould be regularly obviated by taking a tea fpoonful or more of cream of tartar, or by ufing the common glyfters of falts, fugar and milk occafionally. B 2 When 4 ( «6 ) When the patient has fuffcred for want of fleep, af- ter giving a glyfter, and bathing the feet in lukewarm water for half an hour, ten or fifteen drops of lauda- num may be given in a dofe of the faline mixture No. 2. alone ; and this fhould be done after noon before the increafe of the fever, for it ufually makes fome in- creafe towards night. When the fever remits, the decoction of bark mould be given, two table-fpocnfuls every hour, and if the acceffion is poftponed by it, the bark in fubftance fhould be given, as long as the acceffion is abfent : in fome cafes it will put it off altogether ; then, as wel las when the fever ceafes, the bark fhould be given in large quantities, until the patient recovers his ftrength. When a lax attends, four grains of rhubarb and fee °*i£ n err tec a of ipecacuana with a drop or two of laudanum, may be given every three or four hours inftead of the faline mixture. When great fweats attend in the end, it may be ne- ceffary to add five drops of elixir of vitriol to each or every other dofe of bark : in cafe a headach follows, apply a fmall blifter behind the ear, and repeat it if neceffary. The patient fhould be very careful in avoid- ing the caufes of this fever, or he will experience a relapfe. C H A P. VI. INTERMITTANT FEVER, (commonly) FEVER AND AGUE. f^A USE. The relaxing heat of fummer, efpecially when accompanied with moifture and bad air of mariny places, will alone fo relax the furface and ex- pofe the extreme veffels to the air, that nothing more than the ufual effeel: of common air is neceffary to biing on the fever; at other times, when the predifpofition is not fo great, a cool air will produce it. Symp* C 17 ) Symptoms. A languor with yawning and ftretching, coldnefs, fick ftomach, rigors and t emors, ufually at- tend the commencement; the cold with fhiverinp- con- tinues in a very confiderable degree, for one, two or three hours, when it begins to give way, firft to flufhes, and then to a continual burning heat and fever, with a full pulfe, thirft, &c. pain of the head and frequently of the joints, attended fometimes with a delirium. After this has continued forfome time, itgiveswaygraduallyto a fweat which becomes profufe, and this is fucceeded by an iutefmiflion of a part, a whole, or two days, according to the type. Vide page 5. ; In the inter- miffion, the patient is affected with fcarce any thing but debility. • The fever returns again at the end of the time mentioned, with the fame fymptoms, and fo goes on to its end, unlefs it changes its form. Quotidians come on in the morning,- and moft ufually attack the delicate and irritable. Tertians come on about noon, and ufually attack the more robuft and vigorous. Quartans come On in the afternoon, and moft common- ly attack-the aged and torpid. .Management. Sometimes the ague fo reduces the patient, that it will be neceffary to keep him warm and give a little wine ; but this is feldom done. In com- mon nothing is neceffary but to he down. In time of the fever, lemonade and acid drinks, or warm teas may be ufed; the two former will be moft grateful, the latter will promote a fweat. In the intermiffions, port wine and water, and a ftrengthening eafy dlgefted diet of any kind, will be proper. Cure. In the beginning of the cold ftag'e, if the patient is able to take a puke, he fhould take one ; three grains of tartar emetic in a gill of water, may be taken in the courfe of forty minutes, if required to take all : or ten grains of ipecacuana In a fpoonful of water, or a tea-fpoonful of antimoinal wine every fif- teen minutes, either of thefe may be ufed ; the tartar is the moft adtive and effectual, but acts too rough with fdme. When this has been taken, and the fever B 3 has ( 18 ) has come on, a fweating fhould be encouraged by tak- ing about three pints of warm drink in the courfe of two hours, to which one hundred drops of antimonial wine may be added, to make it more effectual. In cafe the patient cannot take a puke, let him take an Anderfon's pill to open his bowels before the time of the ague, and when the fever has come on, and con- tinued a while, let him take fifteen drops of laudanum and fifteen of antimonial wine, in a cup of warm tea every half hour, for three times. But when nothing forbids a puke but the perfon*;: inclination, he may take juft before the fit, or after it is over fome time, the following powder ; twenty grains of rhubarb, and five or fix of calomel in a little fyrup, and when the fever comes on, take the warm drink as above. Thefe medicines wdll prepare for the exhibition of bark, which fhould be given immediately after the fweat goes off. Any of the preparations maybe given, but the powder is the beft; it may be given in mint water or wine ; one tea-fpoonful every hour, till the ague comes on again, then it fhould be laid afide till this is over, when it is to be given again ; the pa- tient fhould not ceafe under an ounce and an half, or two ounces. If, when this has been taken, the ague does not ceafe, another puke fhould be ufed as before. In all cafes the bowels fhould be kept open by Ander- ion's pills or rhubarb. Sometimes a little laudanum given before the ague will put it off, and fometimes giving a little of it juft before the patient is expected to fweat, will prepare for the bark ; fometimes a quantity of fnake-root tea at the fame time will prove effectual: and In many cafes bitters, of horehound, &c. will do as well as bark. The fever and ague, after it has continued for fome time, is apt to affociate cuftom with its caufes of re- currence ; and thus it will frequently continue through fuch feafons as it would not have begun in. In fuch cafes as thefe almoft any alteration in the fyftem will leffen or remove it j thus keeping the patient under expect- ( '9 ) expectation ; fear Or joy has often removed it ; and thus the impofitions of old women have often been effectual, when the faith of her patient has roufed his expectation and fixed his attention. Though fuch things may at times be allowed, yet I would caution every prudent perfon to keep his fkin at leaft to him- felf, and not let igaorant quacks fill up their lack of knowledge upon him, with the virulence of an arte. nical plaifter, or a more dangerous bolus. CHAP. VII. HECTIC FEVER. /^AUSES. Violent racks of the conftitution from any ^ caufe, abforption of matter from ulcers, &c. ex- ceflive relaxation, and delicacy of any part that is ex- pofed to irritation, as the lungs, ftomach and bowels; all thefe caufes are attended with general debility, and particular relaxation of the parts that defend the ten- der extreme veffels, from the irritations which act about them. Symptoms. The fever ufually comes on in the fore- noon, fometimes with confiderable chills or coldnefs, which laft fome time ; this is fucceeded by heat, a quick, fmall and weak pulfe in general, though fome- times there is fome hardnefs in it, efpeclally in thofe who are not much reduced, and early in the complaint; this fometimes leffens towards evening, and again in- creafes at night ; at other times it continues on with- out any very obvious change till towards morning, when it intermits or greatly remits with a profufe fweat which lafts a confiderable time ; fometimes the fweats do not appear in the earlieft ftages, that is, in profufion. A headach ufually attends the fever, as alfo a fick ftomach, both of which grow better in the in- termiffion or remiffion. The tongue is ufually clean in this fever, the belly at firft is often bound, but in the end a lax almoft al- ways ( 20 ) ways attends. The patient waftes away gradually, his feet fwell, particularly at night, his hair falls off, his nails become crooked and thick, his face (harp, and a general failing takes place in every thing but his ex- pectations of getting better, and his underflanding, which ufually remain to the laft. This is the moft ufual form, but there is generally fome variety, owing to the variety of the parts affect- ed, and the flate of the patient. Management. The patient fhould have the lighteft and moft nourifhing food given him in fmall quantities at a time, and at fuch times chiefly as the fever is ab- fent or flighteft; thus his breakfaft or dinner at ten o'clock, fhould contain moft of what he fhould eat. Milk is very proper when the ftomach will receive it: fometimes it may be moft agreeable when diluted vith water and fweetened, at other times it may fit better when boiled. Cuftards, light puddings, chick- en water and broth, beef tea, rye mufh, corn mufh, with the common vegetables of the grain kind, are moftly proper. Weak wine and water in the abfence of fever; barley water, &c. at other times, will be pro- per for drink. The patient fhould be kept clean,, and when his ftrength admits, he fhould be aired in a chair, and at all times have accefs to pure air. Cure, la many cafes it will be needlefs to attempt any thing but a removal of the caufe, when the fever will quickly ceafe : but in general both the one and the other are to be combated. For treating the caufes I refer to the places where they are treated of, (though fome of them could not come under this book, as they be- long to furgery) for the treatment of the fever alone. The caufing debility fhould be removed and the fever interrupted: for the firft, when nothing forbids, bit- ters and bark are neceffary ; alfo elixir of vitriol, which may be given to fixty drops a day. Thefe are to be taken whilft the fever is off, or when it has greatly re- mitted, juft before the time when the return is expect- ed : and again after it has commenced, one of the fol- :owing powders mr.y be given : ipecacuana two grains, magne- - C 21 ) magnefia one tea-fpoonful, mix them and give it in a little camomile tea. When a lax comes on there is little hopes, but the following may be given : cclum- bo root one dram, pour boiling water one gill upon it, and in a quarter of an hour ftrain it off; to this twen- ty drops of laudanum may be added; this mixture may be ufed in the courfe of eight hours, and repeated.— Rice will then be the belt food. CHAP. VIII. INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE. f^AUSES. Thefe act either externally or internally, though frequently both take place in producing the affection. The externals arc, violence, duft, cold winds, changes from heat to cold, viewing minute objects or bright bodies ; metallic fumes, great heat, efpecially when accompanied with moifture ; night reading, &c. The internal caufes are, checked excretions, as the menfes, &c. repulfion of fome eruptive diforders, as the fcald head, &c. long continued ulcers dried up, immoderate ufe of fpirituous liquors and fplces, fevers, meafies, fcrophula, venereal difeafe, &c. &c. Symptoms. Rednefs, fwelling, ftiffnefs .and pain of the ball of the eye or the lids ; both from an inflamma- tion of the veffels that pafs over and through them, being congefted with too much blood, or with red blood, inflead of the fine white parts of it. When the inflammation is confiderable, a fever attends; and in fuch cafes there is danger of the effects, unlefs f]xedily prevented by curing the difeafe. Management. In no cafe a cure can be hoped for unlefs the caufes be removed, which in many cafes will be followed with a cure. If any body be lodged in the eye, it is to be extracted, and if another dif- eafe be the caufe, it muft be cured by the means di- rected for fuch difeafe. In every cafe the patient fhould avoid ( 22 ) avoid exercifing his eyes any more than what there ii neceffity for:—He fhould confine hlmfelf to a dark room, or apply a fold of green filk over his eyes, and ufe an umbrella in the fummer. His food fhould be light and mollly vegetable, in all cafes without pep- per or muftard. His drink fhould be cooling and acid, without any mixture of fpirit. His room fhould be darkened, and cooled with fprinkling in the fummer time. Cure. If there be a fever, or if the inflammation be confiderable, and the patient able to bear Heeding, he fhould lofe half a pint of blood, which may be re- peated if neceffary ; this fhould be followed by a dofe of falts, or if the patient's cafe does not require bleed- ing, or other circumftances prevent it, the falts then fhould be the firft thing. All this is to be done after the caufc .is removed, and thus in many cafes where removing the caufe will be the chief means of cure, they will have no place; as where the inflammation pro- ceeds from the venereal difeafe, fcrophula, &c. One of the fever powders No. i. when the fever continues, or the inflammation remains obftinate, given every four hours, will be ferviceable. The belly fhould be kept regular conftantly by cream of tartar or fmall dofes of fidts, or of jalap nitre, as jalap fifteen grains, nitre twenty five, mix them.'—For external applications, a blifter behind the ears is moft effectual, and to the eyes the following: fugar of lead twelve grains to half a pint of water, or as much white vitriol to an equal quantity: to each of which, when the inflam- mationhas continued and the former remedies have been ufed, may be added a table-fpoonful of brandy. Thefe external applications (the blifter excepted) will be proper in every cafe and time. The weaknefs that follows requires that the patient ufe either a ge- nerr.1 or topical cold bath, and avoid much applicati- on and expofure. CHAP. ( *3 ) CHAP. IX. INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. THIS is either a fymptomatic diforder, as when it follows in the courfe of a primary affection : or it is original, being primary itfelf—of this alone I fhall treat, that requiring the treatment of the con- comitant diforder. It ufually attacks in the heat of fummer thofe of an irafclble difpofition, who are in their youth and given to ftudy. Caufes. Drunkennefs, watching, long expofure to the fun, anger, exceffive cogitation, grief, care, ve- hement defires, external violence, certain poifons, and fuppreflioH of particular difcharges ; as the piles, the difcharge after parturition. Symptoms. It begins with rigors, which are followed by the heat, pain and throbbing of the head, diflurb- ed fleep, noife within the head and ears, inflammation and pain in the eyes, with inability to bear the light and noife, a bloated countenance—the pulfe is low, opprcfled and quick, often weak as well as low, though fometimes it is hard : the patient continues without any fleep for a long time, fometimes till the eighth day ; the arteries along the neck perceptably throb, and blood fometimes iffues by drops from the nofe ; great debility, anxiety and fighing attend, yet the pa- tient is fubject to anger, fierce delirium, ftartings and convulfions. When the diforder has ceafed, a fwim- ming and heavlnefs of the head, weak eyes and great delicacy of hearing attend for a confiderable time. Management. The patient fhould be confined in an airy, darkened, filent and cool room ; his bed fhould be hard, and his head fomewhat raifed upon it. He fhould have plenty of acid, cool drinks, without any mix- ture of fpirit. His food fhould be of panada, barley, jelly, &c. The caufes of the diforder muft be care- fully removed. ( 24 ) Cure. The patient fhould be bled pretty freely, and this may be repeated again and again in lefs quan- tdds, during the firft 48 hours; provided the fymp- toms demand it, and the patient be able to bear it:— the pulfe will ufually be the befl guide ; for if this grow not weak and very low, there will be no danger from bleeding. A dofe of falts fhould be given after the firft bleeding, and it may be neceffary to repeat this the next day. Glyfters may be given daily, fuch as No. 5. one of the fewr powders No. 1. may be given every three hours, beginning after the operati- on of the firft dofe of the falts. The patient's head fhould be fhaved and wafhed with cold vinegar and water. If the delirium runs on after the above eva- cuations, a large blifter fhould be applied to the crown of the head, and when this has drawn, others, if ne- ceffary, may b; applied to the ancles. When the patient has fuffered fome time for want of fleep, the feet mould be bathed half an hour or twice. as long, In water moderately warm, and if this is inef- fectual, let him have ten or fifteen drops of laudanum, or a tea fpoonful of paregoric at night, with this care, that if it makes him worfe, to discontinue it; but if it hai the defired effect, une.ceoinpanied with fymp- toms of increafed inflammation, to peififl giving it every night, if required. A nourifhing diet and the ufe of wine fhould be gradually entered into, after the fymptoms of danger are perfectly gone, in order to prevent thefucceeding fymptoms of debility, &c. Great care will be neceffary to avoid the caufes of this diforder, as flighter ones may caufe a relapfe or repetition. CHAP. ( *5 ) CHAP. X. INFLAMMATORY QUINCY. f^AUSES. The application of cold to the neck or ^ throat, a ftream of cool air applied with force to the very part; as in riding and running : all thefe pro- duce their effect more certainly when preceded by heat. Exercifing the parts that fuffer, as in finging, and loud fpeaking; acrids, mechanic bodies, fuppreffed evacuations, or artificial evacuations that have been long ufed but negledted. Symptoms. This complaint ufually appears with red- nefs and fwelling of the glands fltuated on each fide of the palate ; one is ufually moft fwelled in the beginning, and as this declines, the other increafes; a pain that fhoots towards the ear attends, with feverifh fymptoms, and a ftrong, full and quick pulfe : The patient feels a difagreeable clamminefs, and the tumour is ufually tipped with whitifh mucus. In fome cafes the external parts are much fwelled ; fometimes fcarce any tumour is to be perceived by look- ing into the mouth, and at the fame time the difficul- ty of fwallowing and pain may be very confiderable : In the worft cafes the breathing becomes very diffi- cult, the tumours clofing up the paffage almoft entire- ly ; then the patient fits with his mouth open : his drink regurgitates through his noftrlls, and he is rea- dy to ftrangle every minute for want of a free refpira- tion, which is totally impeded when the patient dies. What is ufually termed a fore throat, is a leffer de- gree of this fame affection, therefore the fame reme- dies may be ufed, omitting the moft general and pow- erful one of bleeding. Management. The patient fhould be- kept neither hot nor cold : he fhould have a light vegetable diet of a fluid preparation ; his drink fhould be of the acid .kind, and not cold or warm, but juft aired. His head C mould ( 26 ) fhould be kept up in bed, or he may fit up altogether; fpeaking, and every exertion of the throat, fhould be avoided, and the caufes fhould be removed. Cure. The patient fhould be bled pretty freely, and this may be repeated the next day if neceffary: he fhould take a dofe of falts as foon as poflible, and then a blif- ter fhould be applied under the throat, of a flim form, fo that it may reach from ear to ear : the bowels fhould be regularly kept open : before the tumour has become very confiderable, ten grains of ipecacuana will be of great fervice. In fuch patients as do not allow of bleed- ing, this may be the firft medicine. Warm water and vinegar fhould be infpired from a proper machine for the purpofe, or from a funnel put over a wooden bowl of water and vinegar, the mouth mould be frequently gargled with aflringent wafhes, as fage tea and vinegar ; or allum-vinegar and honey, or decoction of oak bark and fait petre. If the patient is liable to frequent returns of this af- fection, I would advife him to ufe the cold bath daily ; at any rate to wafh his neck, and habituate himftlf to wear nothing but a very thin flock or ribband round his neck, inftead of two or three folds of a large neck- cloth. C H A P. XL MALIGNANT QUINCY, or PUTRID SORE THROAT. THIS diforder has for its caufe, fpecific contagion, . and therefore attacks aii ages and < ^nditut-ons. Symptoms. It begins with chills, wh-ci: aee follow- ';' ed by an intenfe and bur/iing heat a iwd:.miii«T and pain cf the head, a trcublefrme j.e''lddom'n he throat, ficknefs and vomiting, loofer is, mfl. er>i.a and wutery eyes, tumid and flufhed faci vdd e ftif.uffs of the neck, a fmall, frequent a.id i T"<>ular pulfe, fcetid breath and a difagreeable taftc. Very foon, white fpot* , ( *7 ) fpots appear on the glands each fide of the palate, and thefe with the palate appear red, fwoln and gloffy: thefe i^ots fpread and unite, covering almofl all of the mouth with thick flough?, which falling off, leave ul- cers in their places : the rcdnefs and tumour are fome- times extended to the internal parts of the nofe. On the fecond day, or fater, tfflorefcences appear on the fkin, which are fometimes in fuch fmall emi- nences as fcarcely to be feen, but more ufually fpread in red patches, fo as to cover the whole fkin ; begin- ning firft about the face and neck, and fo extending to the extremities, which feel iliff and fwelled; this ufu- ally continues about four days, and then goes off.with a peeling of the fkin. The glands about the neck are fometimes fwelled to an alarming degree. As the complaint advances, difcharges of blood from different parts are frequent, and fometimes a gangrene takes place at the beginning of the windpipe or ccfophagus, the channel which leads to the ftomach. The patient's voice is hoarfe and flat, though his fwallowing Is not ufually much impeded ; with thefe fymptoms it runs on from two to feven or more days, increafnig every evening. M'.nneeenent. For food, drinks, and general ma- nagement, the fame may be uftd as directed for die r.utrid fever, only a lefs degree of celd will be requifite in this. Cure. Ten grains of ipecacuana fhould be given early in the complaint; three grains of calomel in a little honey, may be given once or twice the evenings after the puke, and if the firft dofe produces more than two ftools, it fhould be checked by giving ten drops of laudanum. This medicine will often prove very efficacious, without producing any difcharge. Some of the preparations of bark, or the powder, which is beft, fhould be given evey two hours after the puke, and to the end of the complaint. The throat fhould be frequently warned with the following; one hundred drops of elixir of vitriol to half a pint of water, and one fpoonful of honey. Port wine fhould ( 28 ) be given to a pint, or quart per day, with the bark. If the tumour in the infide of the throatjbe confiderable, a blifter fhould be laid on the outfide. For the fwelling of the legs which fometimes follows, the patient may life eight drops of elixir of vitriol with each dofe of bark. CHAP. XII. CROUP OR HIVES. S^AUSES. Foregoing diforders, as the meafles and ^ the hooping cough : cold moift air from the water. It moft frequently happens to fuch as live in feaport towns ; and to children, from the time they are wean- ed to their twelfth year. Sytvptoms. It fometimes comes on with the fymp- toms of a common cold only; but the peculiar fymp* toms are a hoarfenefs, and ringing found of the voice ; at the fame time there is an uneafinefs, or pain in the throat, and a whizzing noife in breathing, as if the paffage was too much ftraitened for the air; the patient has a cough that is either dry, or accompanied with the difcharge of flakes of phlegm, like a membrane; the pulfe is quickened, and an uneafy fenfe of heat at- tends. By looking into the throat, a rednefs and flakes of phlegm like thofe difcharged, may fometimes be perceived. It has happened that the patient has been f.ikcn off without fcarce any complaining, in three, four, or five days. Management. The patient fhould not be kept cold, nor difagreeably warm, he fhould have a fpare thin vegetable diet, with light acid, or bitter drinks, as teas of various herbs. In time of coughing, he fhould be raifed and affifted, to keep him from ftrangllng. Cure. The patient fhould take a puke as quick at poflible. (If he ijs twelve years old, ten grains of ipe- cacuana, and half a grain of tartar emetic will not be too much, for there is a great degree of infenSbt- lity ( 29 ) lity in the ftomach in this complaint ; if he is only four years old, let him have half as much, or one tea- fpoonful of antimonial wine, to be repeated every quarter of an hour, till it operates.) After taking the puke, lie fhould take four grains (if twelve years) of calomel, and ten of jalap, the evening of the fame day ; after this for three or four days, he fhould take one day the puke, and the next the purge ; after the firft puke and purge, a blifter fhould be laid on the back of the neck. Throughout the complaint, the fleams of warm vinegar may be drawn into the throat; warm teas, and foaking the feet, may be ufed to re- ilore the perforation.to tbe furface.- C H A P. XIII. THE MUMPS. Ci ONTAGION is the caufe of this complaint. / Sy;: pir >ns. It makes its appearance with the ufual febrile fymptoms, of chills, fucceeding heat, and quickened pulfe ; this is fhortly followed by a fwelling, at the corner of the lower jaw, of a movea- ble gkndidar nature; in a little time it diffufes itfelf over the v. hole neck ; fometimes both fides are affect- ed. It continues increafing till about the fourth day, and then declines with the fever. As the fwelling re- cedes, fome tumour is apt to i take place in the teiles of make, and in the breafts of women. Sometimes when this has not taken place, or when it has been re- pelled by imprudent application'.;, the fever has conti- nued, or increafed with delirium. Management. The patient fhould be kept upon a low vegetable diet, and not expofe himfelf to cold. The above in general will be fufficient, but when the cir- cumltance mentioned takes place, it will be neceffary to direct fomething more than the above for a Cure. We fhould apply w^nn flewed bitter herbs, or warm bread and milk poultices to the parts; and if the C 30 ) fever and delirium be confiderable, the patient fhould be bled if he be able to bear bleeding; otherwife a puke fhould be the only evacuant, viz. ten grains of ipecacuana, more or lefs, according to the patient's age. Befides this or thefe, it may be neceffary to ap- ply a blifter to the back of the neck. In (lighter cafes the puke and fomentations will be fufficient. In all cafes, coftivenefs fhould be prevented by glyfters, caf- tor oil, or falts. CHAP. XIV. PLEURISY OR INFLAMMATION OF THE INTERNAL PARTS OF THE BREAST. THE end of winter, fpring and beginning of fum* mer are the ufual times that this difeafe is pre- valent, all ages and moft conftitutions are liable to it, but the plethoric, and thofe of a ruft'c conftitution, who have feen twenty years, and not exceeded fixty, are'moft liable. Caufes. Cold and heat applied alternately, ftraining or injuring of the parts, &c. Symptoms. It ufually begins with chills, which are followed by heat, quick, ftrong and full pulfe, head- ach, difficult breathing, dry cough at the beginning, though fometimes it begins moiit : towards the end» or after it has continued, it is always moift, and fome- times a very confiderable quantity of yellow mucus is difcharged: this is not unfrequently ftreaked with blood. Moft frequently a pungent pain attacks the fide, about the middle of the fixth or feventh rib, but if the pain fhould attack any other part of the cheft, and fhould not be fo violent, yet accompanied with the other fymptoms, particulafly the full, ftrong, and quick pulfe, we are to confider the complaint as the fame. Management. This fhould be identically the fame with what is directed in Chap. II. only with addition of mucilaginous and fyrup drinks to allay the cough; as of I 3»^ offlaxfeed, and mallow tea with honey: a little lemon juice will make it very agreeable. Cure. From half a pint to two thirds, or more of blood, fhould be taken away on the firft appearance, and if the fymptoms continue, it may be repeated the next day. After the firft bleeding, a dofe of falt3 fhould be given, and fmall dofes of the fame, or com. mon glyfters*may be given regularly to prevent cof- tlvenefs. Immediately after the patient's firft bleed- ing, a blifter fhould be applied as near as poflible to thepainedpart, andoneof the fever powders, No. I. giv. en every hour, beginning after the operation of the falts is over. If after the firft blifter"Kas drawn, the pulfe continues up, and the pain has not confiderably with. drawn, the fecond bleeuing fhould be immediately made, and if in half an hour after that, the pain does not give way, a fecond blifter fhould be applied on the breaft, if the pain has been in the fide, or on the op- pofite fide with this. The powders fhould be continued every two hours. But in general, one bleeding, a blifter, and the powders, with keeping an open belly, will be fufficient. Nothing but a relaxation of the pain and fever, fhould induce the patient to omit any of the above remedies, for life and death are pretty certainly fixed to the narrow compafs of a few days. If the pulfe is ftrong, and bleeding has been omitted as long as fix or feven days, it would be then better done than let alone; but if the pulfe flags, and the patient has had a frequent fhivering about the laft days, it will then be better, if not the very fafety of the pa- tient, to forbear. At fuch a time a blifter might be ap- plied wdthout any injury, but if a fuppuration has ta- ken place, it will be of no fervice ; however thofe who are not proper judges, had better make the application, leaft there might have been an infufficient inflamma- tion for to fuppurate in that time, and with this the patient may ufe what will be proper in the laft cafe of every pleurify when the cough is troublefome : a tea- fpoonful of paregoric in a little flaxfeed, or other tea, once in four or live hours. In the latter ftages, it may I 32 ) be neceffary to fupport the patient's ftrength with de- coctions of bark, and a light nourifhing diet. Seneca fnake root tea, or common fait petre taken to one fourth of an ounce a day, di whey or gruel, may fometimes alone, and oftei: ad.er a bleeding, remove a plenrify ; but they fhould only be tried, when the perfon cannot procure the above prescribed remedies.. CHAP. XV. BASTARD OR SPURIOUS PLEURISY. THIS ufually attacks the aged, thofe of a phlegm nse.de full habit, who have injured their conflitu- tions by excefs of drinking particularly, and are lia- ble to the vlciffitudes of the weather, from being much expofed. Cauft. The long application of cold, fuddenly fucceeded by heat, and drinking of fpirits ; this, with the predifpofition laid down above, is the chief, if not the only caufe. Symptnns. It makes its appearance with chills and flufhes, which are followed by a flight fever, wdth a foft, not very frequent pulfe. The heat of the patient is not ufually much increafed ; a pain affects the fidt, or breaft, which is not very pungent, but rather dull and extending ; a violent pain in the head, fick fto- mach and fc.netimes vo-neting, are more or lets prefdnt. From the beginning, it is common for a cough, ftraitened breathing, and fpitting of tough mucus to attend. The patient is apt to be heavy and drowfy ; thus though there be a pain in the fide, and a fever, it is eafily diftlnguifhed from a true inflam- - matory affection of the breaft. Management. The patient fhould be kept tolerably warm, his diet fhould be light and nourifhing, and in the beginning, if the feverifh fymptrms are not confi- derable, he may have weak wine and water for his drink ; in the end it will always be proper, for the patient. •., ( 33 ) patient becomes frequently fainty, and is not r.ble to take any thing befides. Lemonade may be ufed, when wine and water cannot be given for the fever ; and when lemons cannot be got, vinegar and "water, or cy- der and water. Cure. Bleeding, though it may fometimes be pro- per, as when the patient is of a more robuil habit, and better conflitution than what is defcribed above, and when he has been accuftomed to bleeding, and withal the pulie and pain are not low; yet even then, it fhould be ufed fparingly and cautioufly, and in ninety cafes out of one hundred, it would be injurious to bleed. In the beginning it will be proper to give ten or twelve grains of ipecacuana, or a tea-fpoonful of antimonial wine, every fifteen minutes until it ope- rates ; a blifter may be put on at the fame time, as near as poflible to the pain; the puke may be repeat- ed once or twice if neceffary, and fometimes it will be neceffary to lay on another blifter dole by the for- mer ; twenty grains of jalap, or thirty grains of rhu- barb, or a table-fpoonful of caftor oil, or what is bet- ter than all, four or five grains of calomel, may be ufed to remove any coftivenefs that is prefent: this fhould be attended to throughout. For the cough, two drams of gum ammoniac, dif- folved by trituration in a mortar, with half a pint of water, may be given ; one table-fpoonful every hour : or an ounce of fyrup (commonly called oxymel) of fquills in as much water, may be given in the fame way. Seneca fnake root tea may be ufed if they cannot be procured ; to either of thefe medicines at night a do- zen drops of laudanum may be added, in order to al- lay the cough, that the patient may reft ; and if the cough is very frequent in the day, a few drops may be taken every now and then. Towards the end when the patient grows weak, he fhould ufe about fixty diops of elixir of vitriol a-day, and ufe a deccdti'jn of bark or fome good bitters. Great ( 34 ) Great care will be requiiite to prevent the return of this diforder, when the weather is favourable to pro- duce it. CHAP. XVI. SPASMODIC STITCH, or INTERCOSTAL RHEUMATISM. THIS complaint is prevalent when the changes of weather are frequent, as in the fpring and fall. It ufually attacks the young, thofe under forty years, thofe who are of a delicate conflitution, rather than thofe of a broken flate of health. Expofure to cold, more particularly after heat, is the caufe. Symptoms. It begins with a lancinating pain, moft frequently about the ribs of one fide ; this remits a while, and then returns again, fo as almoft to make the patient fcream out. After a while it becomes fixed, and does not abate, though it-is apt to extend, and even to change its place, fo that the mufcles of the breaft frequently are attacked : with the above a fe- ver, fometimes pretty fmart, at other times lefs, at- tends. In moft cafes the pulfe is not ftrong, but ea-. fily flopped by preffing it, to what it is in true pleu- rify. Frequently a cough attends, which is apt to in. creafe towards the end of the other fymptoms, at which time it is accompanied wdth fpitting of yellow, tough mucus; fome degree of coitivenefs ufually attends, and moft of the fymptoms are worfe at night. The breathing is not in general affected fo much as in pleurify ; the head is ufually much affected with pain; as the pain of the fide declines, the knees or back are fometimes attacked. Management. The patient fhould be kept on a. ve- getable, moderate diet. His drink may be warm herb teas. Curt. (35) Cure. If the patient be pretty full of blood, and his pulfe tolerably ftrong, it will then be prudent and ufeful to take away half a pint or more of blood. A blifter fhould be laid over the part, a dofe of caftor oil, or of fifteen grains of jalap and as much cream of tartar, fhould be given to open Ids bowels : if the pain continues, fome proper fweat.ng medicine fhould be given, as four grains of camphor beat up with honey into a bolus, to which two grains of ipecacuana may be added, this fhould be taken every three or four hours, wafhing it down with feneca fnake root tea, or warm baum tea : or in the place of thefe a tea-fpoon- ful of paregoric and ten drops of antimoni?l wine, may be taken every three hours ; ufing plenty of warm, tea in the Intervals. This laft mixture will be proper for the cough, taken in the fame quantity and times. CHAP. XVII. -INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. • CAUSES. External violence, acrid food, medicine or poifons ; hard bodies fwallowed, as of glafs or ftone ; cold drink, when the body is heated ; diften- fion from an over quantity of food that is of difficult digeftion ; inflammations of the adjacent parts extend- ing to the ftomach: befides thefe caufes, a tranflatlon of affection in other diforders are caufes ; as in the gout, fmall pox, meafles, St. Anthony's fire; but thefe require a treatment connected with the primary affection, which cannot be treated of here. Swietoms. A violent, pungent, and fometimes throbbing pain at the pit of the ftomach, with burn- ing and painful vomiting ; a hiccough, anxiety and dimcuhdbreathing ; great weaknefs ; after taking^any thing into the ftomach, the pain increafes", and "it is difchaiged by vomiting : the pulfe is commonly fmall, -hard and quick. Manage- ( 36 ) Maiiagevrr. The patient fhould be kept from fwallowing any thing but rrfild drinks, as barley w*. ter, milk and water, &c. he fhould keep himfelf as ilill as poflible in a dark room. Cure. If any thing that is acrid, or that may in- jure the ftomach mechanically, has been taken in, it fhould be evacuated as quick as poflible, by taking plenty of warm water, and applying a feather to the throat, to induce immediate vomiting; but if the vo- miting is already confiderable, it fhould not be folicit- ed; but if the caufe be fome acrid, it fhould be dilut- ed with mucilaginous drinks, as gum arabic diffolved in water; or oils may be given, as fweet oil or almond oil; at the fame time it fhould be counteracted by a proper medicine. Thus if it be vitriol, or fpirit of fait or aqua fortis, let the patient take a tea-fpoonful of fait of tartar, or if he can get none of that, let him get a piece of chalk and eat it. If it be arfenic, twelve grains or twice as much precipitate fulphur may be fwallowed. After this, or where thefe have not been required from the nature of the caufe, the patient fhould lofe a pint of blood, if he is able to bear it; and in cafe the pain continues, and the pulfe does not fink and intermit, half as much more may be taken away ; in eigh thours following, a blifter after the firft bleed- ing fhould be applied to the left fide, and glyfters of oil, fugar, milk and a little fait petre fhould be inject- ed every three hours : nothing but the drinks men- tioned fhould be applied by "the mouth ; they may be given frequently, though in fmall quantities at a time.. ! CHAP. XVIII. INFLAMMATION OF THE INTESTINES. /~»AUSES. Befides moft of the caufes of the preced- ^ ing difeafe, may be added, cold applied to the bel- ly; long and violent cholic, and hernia, commonly termed a rupture. Symptoms, Q ( 37 ) ■Sympioms. A fixed pain, fometimes fpreading ocks are very irregular, and run into one another in many places, fo as to form one large flat pock, cover- ing almoft the whole face; wherever there is any fpace between them, it is not florid, but pale and fhrivelled. The fwelling of the face, that fometimes attends the diftinct, is here always prefent at an earlier period, and rifes to a greater height; the difcharge of fpittle ' is generally great about the fame^-time ; both fubfide about the tenth or eleventh day, counting from the attack of the incipient fever. With infants a lax is common inftead of a falivation. The pocks over the body, though diftinct, are ge- nerally flat, and upon the whole, there is a great ten- dency to putrefaction. The management of this fhould be much the fame as that directed for the diftinct, except that towards the latter end, when the patient grows weak, and fymptoms of putridity prevail, then the patient fliould have for drink, fixty drops of elixir of vitriol, to one pint of fpirits and water, or wine and water : great at- tention fliould be given to keep the room clean, fweet and ventilated, as directed for the putrid fever. Treatment. When the fymptoms appear as laid ' down, with confiderable fever; give one fixth of a grain f 55 ) gra'i of tartar emetic in apple tea, or common drink of any kind, every hour. From the fifth day* onward, till the eruption be compleated, give twenty drops of laudanum, every morning and night, taking care to remove the coftivenefs it occafions, by giving cream of tartar, or caftor oil dally, if neceffary. When the fecondary fever comes on, the fame treatment with tartar emetic and laudanum fhould be ufed, until the fymptoms of putrefaction and weak pulfe take place, then all fliould be dropped, for bark and port wine, which may be given every hour, fo that the patient may take two pints of wine and one ounce of bark, from morning till bed time. From the eighth day to the eleventh, when the fe- ver is violent, blifters fliould be laid on fucceffively, without any refpedt to the pocks ; the wrifts, thighs, back of the neck, and breaft, are proper places ; when the fwelling in the throat threatens fuffocation, a blifter fhould be applied over the throat, and the throat gar- gled with a mixture of one dram of vitriol, to half a pint of fage tea and a little honey ; or inftead of this, with vinegar and water; If the fits, that ufually attack children, happen but once or twice, noticing need be done but to keep them cool ; but if they are frequent, they are likely to de- flroy the patient; then as large a dofe of laudanum as the child can take, fhould be given. The bark, with the vitriol and water fliould be con- tinued for a confiderable time after the difeafe, to ftrer.gthen the fyftem, though it fnould be ufed in a lefs quantity. THE CHICKEN POX. THIS diforder appears to arifc from a fpccific con- tagion in the air: like the fmall pox, it never returns. Symptoms. The patient is generally, for one or two nights, or nights and days, affected with fever, which moft * The day is always reckoned from the attack of the incipient fever. C 56 ) moft always is flight; at no certain period, though perhaps always before the third day, the pocks ap- pear on the face, and over the body; they are never very numerous, though fometimes pretty large. In the courfe of four days they are at their fummit, when they are about the fize of a large brifter fhot, and much of the fame form, filled with yellowifh or white water. Management. The patient fhould be kept cool, efpe- cially when in bed; light vegetable food, and cooling acid drinks, fhould be ufed. Treatment. If the fever be worthy attention, the bowels fhould be opened with a dofe of cream of tartar or of falts, everyday till it cutfes, ;.r.d the acid drinks given plentifully. THE MEASLES. THIS diforder arifes from fpecific contagion, and never has been known to attack the fame perfon twice. It ufually makes its appearance about January, and again ceafes at midfummer. Neverthelefs, it is not al- together adherent to any particular times, for it con- tinues throughout the year, though lefs extenfively. Symptoms. It comes on like a common fever, with a cold flage fuccetdtd by a hot one; a naufea, anxiety and vomiting, are pretty generally attendants. Some- times at the beginning, the fever is fliarp and violent, ' but before the eruption it is moft generally fo', which happens about the feurth day; with thefe a hoarfe- neis, cough, difficult breathing, fwelling of the eye- lids, acrid difcharge from the eyes and nofe, vdth freezing take place: generally a drowfinefs attends the beginning. The eruption appears firft on the face in fmall points like fleabltes, which foon may be ob- ferved by fight or feeling, in clufters, fpreading them- felves over the whole body ; the face appears a little turgid curing the firft two days of the eruption, afteu this, the eruption changes its colour from a fcarlet to a brown, and foon goes off very entirely, leaving a feurf. ( 51 ) feurf. T';e fever fometimc3 goes off, when this defqua- mation takes place, but more commonly continues with the cough for fome time after the diforder has gone through its flages, and not unfrequently the cough and difficulty of breathing increafe towards the: end, fo as to mark an inflammation of the lungs. Af- ter the defquamation, a lax or fweating ufually takes place, and continues for fome time. Managemvit. The patient fhould avoid heat, but on the other hand, fhould not expofe himfelf fo much to the cool air, as in the fmall pcx. He fhould live on a low vegetable diet, and cool acid demulcent drinks, fuch as flaxseed tea, with lemon juice: barley water boiled with prunes, is alfo very good, efpeclally for the cough. Treatment. If the fever that precedes the eruption is confiderable, it will, in. adult patients, be proper to bleed, but in children, a purge or two of falts will be generally fufficient. From the beginning, the drinks mentioned above and fyrups may be given to allay the cough ; but thefe are feldom fufficient; it will therefore be neceffary, from the time of the eruption, to give one tea-fpoonful ofparegoric, twice a-day, and two at night in common drink. This treatment and keeping the bowels open regularly, with gentle me- dicine, as falts and manna, in fmall dofes, cream cf tartar, caftor oil, &c. fhould be continued in. When the,defquamation or peeling of the fkin takes place, if the difficulty of breathing mentioned in the defcrip- ti.in, comes on, with a ftrong pulfe ; then the patient fhould be bled freely, and a blifter laid afterwards on the fide, as in a pleurify, and with thefe, one of the powders No. r. may be given every two hours, or if it be a child, a fufficient quantity of antimonial wine, to be taken at intervals of two hours : during fuch a ftate the paregoric fhould be omitted. If the patient is unable to bear bleeding, the cafe then cannot be ve- ry violent-; then purging and bliflering with the pow- ders may be ufed ; gentle riding and bark are proper to reftore the patient when much reduced. THE ( 5» ) THE SCARLET FEVER. THIS complaint cmnot poffibly be feparatcd from the putrid fore throat, as the affection of the throat, erup- tion of the fkin, and low or putrid fever, which are the chief fymptoms, are attendants on both : added to this, the fame contagion will affect one perfon with what is judged to be the putrid fore throat, and ano- ther with the fcarlatina. It is therefore probable that the fcarlatina is only an affection of lefs magnitude, t, fometimes owing to the lenity of the general conta- ! gion, and thencaufing fcarlatina univerfally, andat other times owing to the diverfity of conftitutions attacked. -j Hence, for the cure, &c. I refer to what I have faid of the putrid fore tlnoat, Chap. xi. St. ANTHONY'S FIRE. CAUST.S. A hereditary difpofition thereto, or a . peculiar delicacy of the membrane that fuffers the in- flammation. Paffions of the mind, a fudden cooling ] of the body after being heated by the fun, fpirituouj ] liquors taken freely, hot drinks or hot baths, checked evacuations, moift air, and perfpiration any how ftopt, j generally excite the difeafe in thofe predifpofed. i Symptoms. It commonly comes on with fhivering and fucceeding heat wdth fever ; the pulfe is general-*:! ly quick, fometimes hard and full; a confufion of the head and fome degree of delirium frequently at- ^ tend, but a drowfinefs almoft always, which fometimes -, ^>Jncreafes to a comatofe ftate. After thefe fymptoms i t have continued from one to three days, a rediu-fs moft '.commonly on the face appears, which increafes with •:a fwelling, that turns white, upon prefling it with ' hhe finger. This goes on to increafe, though it com- mlonly abates in one part a little, to increafe in ano- ther ; in this manner it fometimes extends ail over tic r.ett'.d, and fwells the eye-lids, fo ae to produce tempo- rary blindnefj. It f 59 ) It is not an uncommon cafe for blifters to arife on the fwelling, filled with yellow or whitifh ferum, which break after a while, and leave the part underneath blackifh, and very ready to turn gangrenous ; the fkin between thefe bliflei.. peels off; matter is fometimes difcharged from the eyelids : the inflammation and fe- ver ufually continue about ten days, and then gooff; when the fever goes on violently, and the inflammation extends, it is apt to produce an apoplexy. Thefe are the fymptoms of a perfect difeafe, but (lighter affections are not unfrequent, even with little or no fever. Management. The patient fhould be kept cool, in proportion to the greatnefs of the fever : acid drinks and vegetable diet fhould be ufed throughout. Treatment. When the cafe agrees with what is laid down above, hJfa pint or more of blood fhould be taken away, which may be repeated, if the habit al- low, and the pulfe and inflammation require it: after bleedbig, cool dig purgatives fhould be adminiftered ; one ounce of Glauber falts may be divided into four jparts, one of which fhould be given every two hours, mixing it with lemon juice, which mends the tafte. This practice of adminiftering falts may be followed for fome days -r they not only open the bowels, but temperate the heat and fever : in flighter cafes bleed- ing fhould be laid afide, and the medicines glvea as directed. Whenever there are any fymptoms of putrefaction, as a low, weak pulfe, dark colouring of the tongue and mouth, acrid and black fpots underneath where the blifters flood ; then all evacuations, (except keeping the bowels regular, with four grains of calomel and a little rfmbirb, or when calomel cannot be had, with rhubarb alone) fhould be laid afide, and the following powder g'ven every hour : twelve grains of columbo root when this can be kept on the ftomach well, and dc .ot have fufficient effect, as much bark fhould be gic.-n, and the dofe increafed as neceffity requires, or af it will fit on the patient: wine and water, and vi- triol ( ^ ) t-d.A and Wuter, m?.de by putting two tea-fpoonfuls of elixir of vitriol to a pint of water, may be drank alternately. The patient is moft always wanting fome topical application, for this phyficians have thought that meal fprinkkd on the part, is the only proper application ; this, when the inflammation is confiderable, fits agree- ably, and has fome effect in foftening the fkin, and if fprlnkled on very (lightly when the blifters difcharge, it dries up the humour : however patients are not con- tent wdth it, therefore apply the following with a rag moillened in it: half a pint of ftrong tea of camomile flowers, or wormwood tops, fifteen grains of white vi- triol, and a tea-fpoonful of laudanum. Sometimes from neglect, the part fuppurates; then it fhould be poulticed wdth bread and milk poultice till it is ripe, when it fhould be opened and dreffed with lint fpread with wax and oil melted together ; this need only be applied over the orifice. Bark and vitriol, with frefh air, gentle exercife in a carriage in fair weather, will be proper to brace up the habit in the end. THE ESSERA, OR NETTLE RASH. THIS generally attacks thofe of a delicate conftitu- tion, efpecially fuch as have a fine fkin, the exceffive irritability of which appears to be a caufe of the difeafe. From the above it would appear, that women and children are the chief fubjedts of it; which is agreeable to obfervatlon. Symptoms. It ufually comes on in the night, pro- ducing great reftleffnefs and itching. In the morning confiderable red eminences are to be obferved on fome parts of the body, ufually about the upper arms, neck, and breaft ; their forms are irregular, fome being like the ftroke of a whip, others like the fling of a moique- to. It is not unfrequent for them to disappear in the courfe of the day, and return again at night: the time C 61 ) of continuance is various, as they fometimes continue for a week, and fometimes for a year or more. They have never been known to have any dangerous effect; the itching being all that^is difagrceable, which at times is fo troublefome as to prevent fleep. Management The patient fliould ufe riding, and every proper means to remove fuch a delicacy of con- flitution. Cure. This has been too little attended to, or per- haps we fhould e're this, have difcovered fome fimple medicine that would remove it. I have feen mercury recommended, and in a few ca- fes which I have treated, it was always attended with fuccefs. Twenty grains of calomel, and as many of fulphur of antimony, may be made into a dozen pills, one of which may be taken for fix nights following, after which they may be ufed only twice a-week ; if the pa- tient's gums become fore, they fhould be omitted: JEthiops mineral is alfo a proper medicine, twenty grains may be ufed every other night for twenty days. Perhaps if common fulphur was tried every night, it would have an equally good effect. To guard againft the returns of it, bark may be ufed ; and fome weeks nftcr ufmg the medicines prefcribed, the cold bath. CHAP. XXVII. FLUXES OF BLOOD. EPISTAXIS, OR BLEEDING AT THE NOS£. THOUGH this complaint attends at any age and any conftitution, yet it does not make the difor- der I mean to treat of, except when it attacks young people, and efpecially thofe who are full of blood. The animal oeconomy finds It proper not to increafe the different parts equally from the time of conception, F but ( 6* ) but hicreafes certain parts fucceffivcly, this increafe is brought about by a determination of blood to thefe parts: hence the different periods of life, that we fee affections of the flux kind making their appearance may be eafily accounted for : and4ience this complaint in the youthful, and the following complaint imme* diately after that period. It requires attention, or it will in general be accom- panied with very difagreeable confequences. Symptoms. A head-aeh, rednefs of the eyes, florid countenance, and throbbing of the temporal arteries, ufually precede for a while before the effufion, but imme* diately before It a fulnefs of the face, and itching at the nofe take place : befide thefe, frequently more general fymptoms are obfervable; as coftivenefs, pale urine, cobJrefs of the feet, and fhivering : this is a defcription which fuits the moft perfect ftate of the complaint. The quantity of blood difcharged is various, accord- ing to circumftances. Management. At the time the bleeding comes on the patient -fhould be placed in a flream of cool air, and be fupported erect; he fhould avoid talking, or blowing his r.ofe. In the intervals he fhould avoid heat, ftooping his head, or walking fafl, more efpeclally after eating: his exercife fhould be gentle and conftant, and this may be partly in riding and walking, a.id partly in the oc- cupation of his bufinefs, if that be mechanical. The cold bath ma)' be ufed daily, in which he may remain pretty long ; this has, befide a bracing property, a tendency to ir?kc the patient lean : a little care fhould be ufed in the beginning ; no cap fhould be worn on the head to ke«p the water from that part. He fhould live upon a \egetable diet chieliv, and ufe cold water fcr his conftant drink. Cure. In beginning to treat the patient, if he has not already left much blood, a few ounces may be tak- en from him, a little before the time of the bleeding's coming on, and ever afterward a dofe of falts may be ufed at the fame time j and it may be obferved in gene- ( *l ) tal, that it will be neceffary to keep the bowels very regular. If after the falts have been taken, the difpo- fition is not removed, one of the fever powders, No. r. may be ufed every two hours, for two days, and large quantities of lemon-juice taken between each dofe. When the bleeding comes on, it may be fuffered to continue till fix ounces have been difcharged, provided the patient be full of blood, but if otherwife, it fliould be flopped immediately, by pouring cold water on his head, hands and teflicles, and by drinking cold water; at the fame time, ufing do'flils of lint, dipt in a ftrong foliation of allum and water or in any common af- tringent, and applied up the nofe ; a piece of fponge is fometimes of fervice ; a weak folution of blueftone has fometimes flopped the bleeding, after other things have failed. But in many cafes neither of the above will anfvvcr, then the patient's life is in danger, and the following fimple method may be ufed by any com- mon perfon, who has the leaft degree of prefence of mind ; take a needleful cf filk, wax it and tie to one end of it a doffil of well fcraped lint, about as large as your thumb, get a piece of cat-gut firing feveral inch.e.i long, greafe it a little, pufh this cat-gut through the bleeding noflril into the mouth, till you obferve it eome out near the tliroat, lay hold of it with a pair of narrow pincers or forceps, or in their flead, with a dull pair of fciflars, and draw it till you have both ends in your hands ; tie a knot in the end that you have drawn through, and to this knot faften your iilk thread, and draw back the cat-gut till you hav^ drawn the doffil of lint againft the orifice of the paffage that leads into the throat, then you need only flop up the noilrd with another doflll of lint, which will fhut up the paffage altogether, and hinder any more blood from coming out. The lint fhould be kept in for three or four days. The cat-gut is only for the purpofe of getting the flk through, which is too limber of itfelf: In pufh- ing the cat-gut throe-eh, you are not to pufh it up- wards, as the ujd.ils apparently lead, but directly F 2 backward, C 64 ) backward, aiming at the upper part of the throat where it comes out ; the noflrils turn at about half an inch after you have pufhed it upwards. By the ftated returns of this complaint, and the habit of the patient as well as by the quantity, you may eafily diftinguifh it from what is termed, a paffive flowing of blood from the nofe. In this complaint, the ufual topical applications for the other kind are fufficient ; bu twith this the cold bath may be ufed, which is an effectual remedy, from my own experience ; with this or without it, tincture of iron, No. 7. may be ufed. SPITTING OF BLOOD. CAUSES. Befides the predifpofition mentioned in the preceding chapter, we may confider, as exciting caufes, fuppreffed evacuations, fudden changes of the air from heavy to lighter, violent efforts, compreffion in different parts, &c. Symptoms. After fome general diforder, as flatulency, chills, &c. a fulnefs is often felt about the cheft: from the blood being poured out, an irritation is made, to relieve which, the patient hawks or coughs, by which means he difcharges a little frothy reddifh and fomewhat faltifh fpittle ; this fenfation often re- turns again, and the fpittle is thrown out of a deeper red. In this manner the patient ufually difcharges the blood for fome hours or days, when it ceafes for that period. But it fometimes happens, that the rup- ture is more confiderable, and the pure blood is dif- charged in fuch quantities, r.s to excite vomiting; In fuch a cafe the patient's life is in immediate danger. A cough ufually follows the bleeding, which returns fometimes every week, and fo on at every period be- tween that and a year. Management. This fhould be exactly as defcribed for the preceding diforder, only that the cold bath fliould not be ufed, as we have not fufficient experi- ence to recommend it, and the cold fhould be here very ( be ufed. A table-fpoonful of muftard-feed may be the firft, which will give the patient a gentle vomiting ; a£ ter this, any of the following may be tried, as they may beft fuit: from one to two tea-fpoonfuls of volatile tincture of guaiacum in water, three times a-day; or ten drops of tincture of cantharides, three times a-day in broth or mucilage ; ten drops of fpirit of turpentine in honey, three times a-day ; infufions of horfe-radifh and muflard ; electricity ; frictions ; external applica- tions of fpirit of fal ammoniac and oil ; applications of flies, made by putting a lump of blifter-plaifter to twice as much common wax and oil plaifter ; and laftly, by drinking the water of Berkley fprings, which is pro- bably as effectual as any. CHAP. XXXIII. FAINTING. f^AUSES. Exceflive exertions, heat, large evacuati- ons, exceffive paffions, as fear, anger, joy, &c. fud- denly depriving the body of any compreffion, diften- fion, or pain, that it has been for fome time accuflom- edto; violent pain, affections of the ftomach, disagree- able fmells, fights, &c. fkc. Symptoms. Sometimes a languor, an anxiety, a gid- dinefs and dimnefs precede ; at other times the faint- ing comes on fuddenly ; the patient turns pale, finks away, and appears dead ; the pulfe being either im- perceptible,, or very low; the breathing in the fame ftate. A-ColdT fweat often breaks out, and ftands in drops y%f " upon r so ) Upon the patient's forehead, winch is as cold as a corpfe. After lying a few minutes in that ftate, the patient begins to recover, and vomits, or is very fiok at the ftomach. Management. The patiertt fhould be laid out on a hard bed, in a dream of cool air. If the caufe requires attention, it is to be removed as quick as poffible. Cure. The patient fhould have his face fprinkled with cold water, and his hands, arms, and legs rub- bed in the direction of the circulation, that is, towards. the heart. Hartfhorn fhould be applied to the nofe and temples, and twenty or thirty drops given internal- ly. As foon as the patient begins to recover, a little good wine fliould be given him, and if much debility remains afterwards, it fliould be removed by bark and. fteel. CHAP. XXXIV. DYSPEPSY, OR CONFIRMED INDIGESTION. S^AUSHS. The large ufe of coffee, tea, or any warm watery drinks, of tobacco, ardent fpirits, opi- um, bitte-s, fpices, and acids ; prtrefcent food, over- eating, frequent unneceffary vomiting or purging : feme diforders, as intermittent fevers, fluxes, clc. Ah indolent life, much application of mind, exceflive ve- rier}-, leng txpofure, without exeicife, to cold moid* air. Symptoms. The great variety of fymptoms in this affection, together with the caufes, is the reafon that no two perfons are identically alike affected; but ne- verthelefs the general or fundamental fymptoms are al- ways alike ; thefe I fhall fet down : a lofs of appetite, diftenfions of the ftomach with wind, eructations after eating efpecially, heart-burn, fometimes a vomiting, frequent pains about the ftomach, and a dejected mind. Management. Avoid all the caufes, ufe the moft di- sable . ( Si ) •'citable meat in fmall quantities at a time, avoid all flatulent vegetables, ufe wine and water, brandy and water, or porter, if it will fit wJl on the ftomach ; ufe gentle, conftant, and varied exercife, taking caie to avoid expofure in cold or damp weather. Cure. This is either palliative or radical; the htter is not to be expected in a fhort time, nor at all, unlefs with great attention. Tie palliative confifts in removing the prefent dif- agreeable feelings from time to time. The moft troubkfome fymptoms are the wdnd and acid on the ftomach, and the coftivenefs: for the wind and acid, a little magru fia or chalk fhould be taken ; this is beft done by keeping it mixed up with a little mint water, and taking it by fpoonfuls, when trou- bled with the wind, acid, or fickneff. For the coftivenefs, the patient fhould be provided with a box of pills made with jalap or rhubarb ; or with extract of white walnut bark, thefe may be taken occafionally ; riding overagreeablecountry feats, is one of the moft effectual remedies againfta dejected mind. For the radical cure, we are to attempt the removal of the debility in the fibres of the ftomach ; for which purpofe the waters of Berkley fprings, or of any cha- lybeate fprings, are the moft promifing : when thefe cannot be ufed, any of the following medicines may be ufed, as fhall beft fuit. Haifa wine glafs full three times a day, of the tincture No. 7. or two tea-fpoon- fuls of No. 8. in a little water, or in fpirit and water, three times a-day ; or twelve grains of columbo root, three or four times a-day ; or a table-fpoonful of the tincture of bark, No. 4. three times a-day. CHAP. XXXV. LOCKED JAW. CLAUSES. Sudden application of cold to the body, when warm and much relaxed ; lacerations of the t£n.do.n& C 82 ) tendon; or n:rves,of the foot, and of fome other p.u's; expofure of the mufcles to the air, after the fkin has been taken off by a gangrene or otherwife. Symptoms. A ftifmefs of the lower jaw, and pains about the breaft and back generally precede, and in- creafe till the jaw becomes firmly clofed, and the muf- cles of the back, or of the fore parts, are violently con- ftricted, fo «s to bend the,patient into a bow; aftwJH this ftate has continued for feme time, he is feized with convulfions, in which he is generally carried off. Management. If any fubftance is lodged in the parts < primarily affected, it fhould be removed Immediately: the patient fliould be kept warm, and fed upon fuch food as can be got down. In fome cafes, it would be ; advjfable to draw a lower tooth, to make a paffage for the food ; wine and water is the moft proper drink. j Cure. It will be proper to remove a toe, or any I fmjll part, if that be the place of the wound, and to drefs this, or whatever part may be hurt, with a ftrong M fuppurating falve, as bafilicon (which is chiefly com- pofed of roun and wax, with a fufficiency of oil to foft- en it) ; having firft fprinkled it with red precipitate: or if thefe things are not to be had, a little warm oil of turpentine. The .patient's bowels fhould be opened with caftor oil, or with jalap, and kept open ; after this he fliould have one dram of ftrong mercurial ointment rubbed in- to his thighs and arms, morning and night, till he fpits freely : after this it may be ufed every other day, fo as juft to keep up a fpitting for a week or more, if the fymptoms continue. If the patient grows weak, he fliould take the bark as frequently as he poffibty: ca?, and in as great quantities as his ftomach will bear, without raifing his pi^fe too much. It will be proper to continue the medicines in fmaller quantities, for feme time after the affection has gone off. If the fore is brought in the beginning to fuppurate, the k>. ;ed jaw need not be feared. CHAP. ( *3 ) CHAP. XXXVI. EPILEPSY, OR COMMON FITS. (CAUSES. Wounds, and bony protuberances of the fkull; offification of the membranes of the brain ; acrimony of the fluids from contagion, degeneracy, &c. paffions, as anger, fear ; ftrong imagination of difagreeable objects, and the fight of fuch ; congef- tions of blood in the brain, produced by a plethoric ftate, by long continued fun-heat on the head ; by in- toxication, furfeit, &c. irritations proceeding from worms ; teething; fplinters in the flefti; fractured bones; ftones in the kidney; the matter of ulcers ; poifons, &c. and laflly, large evacuations of blood. It will readily appear, that many of the above cauf- es do not produce fits generally ; and hence there muft be a predifpofition in thofe, in whom they will occa- fion them. A predifpofition confifts either in a great mobility of the mufcular fyftem, or in a relaxed ftate of the veffels of the brain, which allows of their being eafily forced beyond their power, and admitting of •congeftion. Symptoms. Sometimes the patient feels indifpofed for fome time before the attack, with head-ach, gid- dinefs, fulnefs of the head, fluggifhnefs, &c. at other times the fit attacks without warning ; the perfon falls down, and is varioufly agitated, fometimes one fide more than the other; his tongue is often thruft out of lus mouth, and by that means is bit almoft or quite through : after continuing fome minutes in this ftate, his convulfions ceafe, and he lies fome time in a fleepy ftate, and then returns to himfelf, not knowing what has paffed. Management. It will be proper to hold the patient, fo as to keep him from hurting himfelf, and to put a piece of thick leather between his teeth, to keep him from injuring his tongue. It is feldom or never necef- fary to prefcribe any diet for the patient, except in the ( H ) the intervals, when it is to be fuited to his ftate. If fulnefs is the caufe of the fits, or he is of a full habit, a low vegetable diet, wdth hard exercife, fhould be ufed; but for a contrary ftate, a nourifhing diet and conftant gentle exercife is to be ufed. The caufea fhould if poflible be removed by operations or medi- cines, fuited to the caufe, &c. Cure. In full habits, a bleeding will be proper during the fit, or preceding it. However, if they fre- quently return, it will not do to bleed every time, but give a dofe of falts in its ftead, at the time the patient expects the return. Befides this, very little can be done, . except to adhere flrictly to the management directed, and to have an iffue put in the back of the neck. In thofe of thin habits, when feveral fits return quickly after one and the other, that is in one day, it will be proper to give twenty drops of laudanum ; to have him bathed in warm water, and a warm milk and water glyfter injected two or three times a-day. AH this may be repeated if neceffary, in fix or eight hour3" ,! after. But the chief thing confifts in removing the mobility or irritability mentioned in the caufe. For this, bark, fteel, and the cold bath are proper ; they fhould be ufed a long while, with proper exercife and diet. In fits proceeding from fome of the above caufes/ as from irritations, the removal of the caufe is all that is re- quired. But it is lamentable, that fome of the caufes cannot be removed ; as that from bony protuberances into the brain, Sec. for fuch there is no remedy. But it is very probable, that the number of fits will be great- • ly leffened by temperance, and avoiding extremes oa ' either hand. CHAP. ( «5 ) CHAP. XXXVII. St. VITUS's DANCE. THIS is a convulfive affection, partly under the in- fluence of the will: It affects the patient's leg or arm, or both. It makes him limp along, and in taking a cup of water, or applying it to his mouth, he ufrjally performs fome uncommon geftures, carrying it quickly one way and then another, before he gets it to his mouth. It is apt to terminate in palfy. Chil- dren from eight to twelve are the fubjects of it. Cure. The patient fhould live fparingly, and be purged if he is full. Befides this, cold bathing and a vomit of ipecacuana, taken two or three times, will be of fervice. Sometimes electricity is of fervice. CHAP. XXXVIII. PALPITATION OF THE HEART. IT is not when this is a fymptom, but only when it is a primary affection, that it belongs to this head. CAUSES. Obftructions in the large blood-veffels, exceffive irritability or mobility of the heart, affections of the mind ; and exceffive evacuations. Management. The patient fhould live on a nourifh- ing diet, if he is weak habitually, or has been weaken- ed by diforder ; nvich motion, fudden ftarts, ftraiiv ing, and all expofure fhould be avoided. Cure. When it is certain, that an obftruction in the large veffels is the caufe, there can be no cure ex- pected, only palliative, and that by avoiding all ex- cels and extremes. In the other cafes, ftrengthenlng the habit with bark, fteel, wine, and gentle riding, are what will prove effectual to remove it; and for a temporary me- H dicine, ( ™ ) dicine, pills of afafcetida, or a few drops of laudanum, may be ufed. CHAP. XXXIX. ASTHMA. BY this I do not mean every difficulty of breath- ing, but only that which returns periodically, de- pending upon a certain peculiar conflitution of the lungs. It ufually obferves the changes of weather in its returns, and feldom or never goes off entirely. Symptoms. It often begins with a tightnefs acrofs the breaft, flatulency, and impediment in refpiration, which continues until the patient can fcarcely get fuf- ficient breath to live. Sometimes a large quantity of frothy fpit is difcharged, at other times little or none. When ever any phlegm is difcharged, which the pa- tient generally'makes many efforts to do, it is attend- ed with relief. Management. The patient fhould ufe light food, fuch as wdll not produce flatulency ; his drink fnould be of the cooling kind. He fhould be in a place wh*re there is a free admif- hon of air, yet not expofed to cold. Cure. A vomit fhould be given in the beginning, of ipecacuana ; after which twenty drops of laudanum in a little mint water: this may be repeated in fix or eight hours, if neceffary. The bowels fhould. be immediately opened, and kept op?n with common glyfters. If much fever attends the afthma, it may be proper to take away fome blood, if the patient is fufhciently able to bear it; and alfo to lay a blifter to the back. Gentle ridingis proper, after the fit has paffed over. As tea and coffee are iuppofed to be injurious to afth- matics, they may ufe milk and water in its ftead. CHAP. ( »7 ) CHAP. XL. HOOPING COUGH. THIS often begins like a common cold, but pro- ceeds on till the cough becomes more like a con- vulfion : the patient's breath is fo^ forced out of his lungs, that it returns with a whizzing or hoop ; after which he often pukes, and finds relief. After fome time there is a confiderable difcharge of mucus. Management. The patient, if full, fhould live on a low diet for fome time : mdk in its various prepara- tions is proper, and fhould form the chief of the pa- tient's diet. Gentle riding is of fervice in good weather. Cure. Gentle puke3 of ipecacuana, or tartar eme- tic, fhould be given every two or three days for feye- ral times ; after which, fmall dofes of antimonial wine every night: the bowels fhould be kept open with cream of tartar, or jafap. When the cough has con- tinued for fome time, and the patient grows weak, he (hould take bark daily. A blifter is fometimes neceffary, when the patient's breathing becomes much interrupted, or when the re- turns of coughing are violent and frequent. CHAP. XLI. CHOLIC. fJUSES. Coftivenefs, cold applied to the belly or ^ feet, indigeftible food, acrids, &c. Symptoms. Pain in the belly, ufually about the na- vel, with coftivenefs, flatulency, and often vomiting. Cure. When much fever attends, it will be prudent to bleed ; but when thefe is nothing but a quick or frequent pulfe, we need not order bleeding, but endea- vour to open the bowels with a common glyfter, or with a fpoonful of caftor oil given every three hou« s, H 2 tdl ( 88 ) till it operates ; after which ten drops of laudanum may be given In feme mint water, every hour, for four times if neceffary. If the pain does not abate for this, the patient fhould be put into a tub of warm water for half an hour. If the ftomach does not bear the oil, let the patient take a quarter of an cui.ee of cream of tartar, and fif- teen or twenty grains of jalap. The opening mecli-' cines iliould be often repeated in led dofes, to prevent a tapfe, ad remove the coftivenefs, which the lauda- num occafions ; falts and manna, or manna and fenna, are rl'o wry good purges. Thtpatient fliould ufe riding, to prevent returns, and avoid all food that has a tendency to flatulency, or to produce coftivenefs. CHAP. XLII. •CHOLERA MORBUS, OR VOMITING AND PURGING OF BILE. THIS violent diforder happens at the end of fum- mer, ufually after loading the ftomach wdth acid fruits. Cure. The patient fliould take large dofes of ca- momile tea, or balm, or fage tea, to wafh out the fto- mach ; after which he fhould take ten drops of lauda- num, in fome mint or cinnamon water every half hour, for five o,r fix times if neceffiry. If this does not have the defired effect, a blifter fhould be laid on the breaft, and a large bundle of mint, dewed in wine or fpirit, laid oyer and about it. The patient fhould be kept as warm as he can, fo as not to be difagreeable. Great care fhould be taken to avoid the night air, and acid fruits, which rather promote the fecrction of bile, than correct it when fecreted. This fame diforder, with very little variety, is very common to children in large towns. They fhould be immediately carried out into the country air, without waiting ( 89 ) waiting for an alteration of the diforder, and alfo dipt in water frefh from the well. For a medicine, they may have, if five years old, ten drops of laudanum put into half of the mixture, No. 2. One tea-fpoonfulofthis and one of weak mint water, may be taken every half an hour, for three or four times: the mint as above may be immediately applied to the ftomach. After the diforder has gone off, bark or columbo, fhould be taken to ftrengthen the ftomach ; port wine, or Ma- deira, may alfo be ufed. CHAP. XLIII. LAX, OR LOOSENESS. CAUSES. Over-eating, bad food or water, large quantities of fweets or acids, poifons, over-purg- ing, bile in the fummer t ime, matter difcharged into the inteftincs, cold applied to the belly or feet, teething, paffions of the mind, &c. Management. The caufes as far as poflible fhould be avoided, the patient fhould avoid damp or cold air, by dreffmg warm, as with flannel next the fkin ; all food that has a laxative quality, fliould be avoided. Sa- go, rice, milk, eggs, light broths, and digeftable meats fhould be ufed ; for drink, wine and water, and warm teas, are proper, as fage, balm, mint, &c. Cure. To perform this, we fhould keep up a free perfpiration, by giving twice a-day, half a grain of opium, with one grain of ipecacuanna : let the pa- tient lie down for two hours after taking this. After ufing this prefcription for fome days, ailringents are to be ufed, as ten or fifteen grains of tormentil root twice a-day, or thirty grains of gum kino twice a-day, or oak bark, made into a decoction, and ufed in the fame quantities as the Peruvian bark. H3 CHAP- ( 9© ) CHAP. XLIV. HYSTERICS. pAUSES. Paffions of the mind, efpecially grief, ^ large evacuations, obftrudted menfes, great irregu- larities of any kind. Thefe fcarce ever fail to bring it on, in thofe fubject or predifpofed to it. Symptoms. Some diforder is generally felt in the bel- ly, which is fucceeded by the fenfation of a ball rifing up till it gets fixed in the throat ; with this, the pa- tient i. alio wreathed to and fro by convulfions, which ceafe after fome minutes, to return again. In the intervals, the patient iometimts lies in a (leepy ftate, at other times comes to herftlf and talks. In this man- ner they continue for fome time. Management. The patient fhould ^>e kept from hurting herfelf during the fit ; her food fhould be of the lighted kinds. If (he is full, nothing but water drinks fhould be ufed, but if otherwife, fhe (hould have wine and water : exercife is of material confequence to prevent relapfes. Cure. When the patient is of a full habit, or when the affection proceeds from obftructed menfes, (provid- ed this does not proceed from debility) fome blood fhould be taken away, after which the bowels (hould be opened with a common glyfter. If the convulfions ftill continue, ten drops of laudanum fhould be given in fome fage tea, or mint water, which may be repeated three or four times if neceffary. In lean patients, a tea-fpoonful of the tincture of afafeetida given three or four times a-day, is what is generally ufed ; fometimes ? mall puke of ipecacuana will put an end to the fits. Thofe who are in the latter cafe, (hould ufe bark, fteel or bitters, with a nourifhing diet, and gentle exercife, to prevent returns; whilft thofe who are in the con- tra ty ftate, fhould live abftemioufly, keep.their bow- els open, and ufe much exercife. CHAP. C 9< ) CHAP. XLV. BITE OF A MAD DOG. OffMPTOMS. The wound fefters, and after fom« time, feldom under a week or two, the patient be- comes languid and dejected. He then begins to dread water, and cannot fwallow it without great agonies and convulfions of the face ; after fome time he cannot bear the fight of it. He dofes, and every now and then ftarts from his flumber ; he fometimes raves fo as to need confinement. Cure. The wound fhould be cut out, if it is en a part that admits of it; if not, let it be filled with gun powder, and this burned ; after which it fhould be kept open for a month, by fprinkling it with red pre- cipitate, and drefling it with a falve made with wax, oil and rofin. But if this has been neglected, there is no way left, but to falivate the patient, by rubbing one dram of mercurial ointment on him every fix hours till he fpits freely ; after which it may be applied eve- ry other night, fo as to keep up a plentiful fpitting for a week or ten days. This, if pone in time, will often prevent the affection. CHAP. XLVI. DROPSY. fAUSES. Obftructions of the liver, compreflionu ^ of the blood-veffels from any caufe, large evacua- tions, fuppreffed natural evacuations, cold and moift- 11 re long applied, hard drinking, general debility, par- ticular debility of what is called the lymphatic fyftem, rupture of a lymphatic, &c. Symptoms. A fuppreffion of urine, drought, fwelling of the belly, or the tody in general, which ufually re- tains the impreffion of the finger; towards the end, fe- vers ( 92 ) vers come on with a loofenefs, which puts a period to- the patient's miferablelife. Management. The patient fhould live upon light, digeftable food, and obferve the greateft regularity: his drink fhould be wine and water, if he is thin or de- bilitated : gentle exercife fhould be conftantly ufed.1 Cure. It will be very well in the beginning, if the patient's ftate admits of it, to give two or three fmall purges, compofed of twenty grains of jalap, with a quarter of an ounce of cream of tartar : if this does not anfwer, we fhould try medicines that promote the uri- nary fecretion ; for which purpofe two grains of pow- dered (quills may be given, twice a-day: or half an ounce of cream of tartar diffolvcd in a quart of water, may be taken in the courfe of the morning. An infu* (ion of horfe-radifii and garlic, in fpirit, has been fome- times of ufe; alio ftrong cider, iron flakes, and muf- tard-feed. From ten to twenty drops of an infufion of tobacco; in a little mint water, twice a-day, have been ufed with fuccefs. If none of the above medicines have-the defired ef- fect, there is but little chance of a recovery. However, after every thing elfe has been tried to no purpofe, rubbing the belly, when the dropfy affects that part, with warm oil for a long while, every day, before a . fire, has-proved effectual. Bitters and fteel are always ufeful, and fliould be taken with the other medicines, only at another hour.. There is a kind of dropfy, which affects only the ca- vity of the breaft, which is known by the noife the water makes, when the patient turns over-; by its af- fecting the pulfe fo as to make it ii regular in its ftrokes; by its affecting the refpiration, and difturbing the pa- tient in the night with a fenfation of oppreffion. It - is to be treated as the other dropfies. CHAP. ( 93 ) C H A P. XLVIP. RICKETS. oTMPTOddS. It makes its appearance generally "^ between the ninth and twenty fourth month, in the following manner; the child becomes fedatc, and grows lean, whilft the head grows fomewhat out of form ; the teeth come out flowly, turn black, and fall oHt : in a little time the child becomes altogether mifhapen, fome parts growing whilft others pine away: the (tools are liquid ; and after a confiderable time, a fever comes on, which continues till it puts an end to the pitiable object. But when it is not fo bad, the child recovers as he grows, till he recovers all but his fhape. Management. The child fliould not be kept longer than ufual at the breaft, he fhould have a portion of meat for his diet, much tea fhould be avoided: he fliould be carried out every day, for exercife, when the weather permits, and great attention fhould be paid to keeping him clean. Cure. If the weather is not very cold, let the child be dipped every morning in water immediately from the will: give him a tea-fpoonful of the tincture No. 7. three or four times a-day, and let him take two or three giains of rhubarb, when coftive. Bark is alfo a good medicine, if the child can be prevailed on to take it. If there is much acid on the ftomach, give a little crabs' eyes, or magnefia. CHAP. XLVIII. JAUNDICE. (CAUSES. Concretions of the bile flopping up the ^ duct, tumours, fpafms of the gut into which the f 94 ) bile is emptied, as in cholic and obftructions of the liver. Symptoms. An univerfal yellownefs which begins in the white of the eyes, whitifh ftooh, and pains about the right fide, and fometimes a fwelling at the fame place. Management. The patient fhould live moftly on ve- getables, except when very thin. Gentle exercife fliould be conftantly ufed : the drink fhould be wine and water, when in the above ftate, but if full, no- thing but water fhould be ufed. The patient fhould carefully avoid cold and moid are. Cure. A gentle emetic fhould be tried, and if it is of fervice, or does not do harm,- it fnould be repeated; this is beft fuited where there are gallstones: but if the liver be obftrudted, the patient fhould take one grain of calomel, every night and morning, till hi3 gums feel fore. When much pain attends, twelve or fifteen drops of laudanum may be given twice a-day. Bitters are often ufeful; alfo elixir of vitriol, to forty drops a-day. Soap has fometimes been ufeful, taken in pills; but the chief dependence is to be put in diet and exercife. When there is any fever, the feline mixture, No. 2, (hould be ufed as there directed. PRESCRIPTIONS. FEVER POWDERS. No. i. TAKE fixty grains of clean fait petre, and one grain of tartar emetic ; beat the fait fine, and mix the tartar well with it: divide it into five powders. One of thefe is generally given every two hours, in a cup of water or tea. SALINE ( 95 ) SALINE MIXTURE. No. 2. Take two tea-fpoonfuls of fait of tartar, or fait of wormwood, diffolve it in fix table-fpoonfuls of water, and add lemon or lime juice to it, or pure vinegar gra- dually, until it ceafes to bubble ; fweeten it. Two table-fpoonfuls every hour is generally the dofe. DECOCTION OF BARK. No. 3. To one ounce of bark add half a gallo* of water, and boil it in about two or three hours to three gills ; drain it through a coarfe rag, whilft hot. Dofe : Two table-fpoonfuls every two hours. TINCTURE OF BARK. No. 4. Pour a quart of Port or Madeira wine on two oun- ces of bark ; in fix days it will be fit for ufe. Dofe. A fmall wine-glafs full from two to eight times a-day. MILD GLYSTER. No. 5. To one pint of milk add of lard or oil, molaffes, and Glauber or table fait, each one table-fpoonful: warm it to the heat of blood, and ufe it at once. COMMON LAXATIVE PILLS. No. 6. Take thirty fix grains of aloes, and twenty four of Caftile foap : make them into twelve pills with a little honey : one or two are a dofe. TINCTURE OF STEEL OR IRON. No. 7. On a handful of the fl.ikce that fly off round the an- vil, (in a blnckfmith's Jhop) pour a quart of Port wine; let it ftand a few days, and then ufe half a wine-glafs full, once, twice, or three times a-day, BIT- ( 96 ) BITTERS. No. 8. On an ounce of gentian root, finely cut, and half ai ounce of orange peel, pour a pint and a half of good brandy : let them ftand five days, and then ufe about two tea-fpoonfuls in a little water, three times a-day. DOSES. For a grown perfon a youth of 12 a child of J a babe Laudanum. Drops. io to 25 4 to 8 2 to 4 1 to i£ Tart. Emetic Grains. 2 to 4 i& to 2$ 1 to j | Ipe'cacuana, Grains. 8 to 18 6 to 10 4 to 6 1 to 2 EXPLANATION OF DIFFICULT WORDS. Chalybeate. That which is impregnated with iron. Coma. A disordered ftate like fleep. Congeftion. A collection of hi m ours. Contufion. Preffure, fqueeze, crufh. Ccaftricted. Drawn together, bound. Debility. Feeblenefs, weaknefs. Decoftion. That which is made by boiling. Delirium. A confufion of the intunal fenfes. Demulcent. Softening. Defquamation. A peeling ofid Exacerbate. Sharpening up, increafe. EfHorefeence. An appearance of ruddy fpots. Exha'atbn. Vapour, fume. Eminence. Raifed above a level. Eructation. A belching. Fauces. The pofterior cavity of the mouth. Flaccid. ( 97 ) Flaccid. Relaxed, loofe. Geftation. Paflive exercife, as riding. Grumous. Clodded. Intermittent. With an interval. Laceration. Tare, rend. Mucilaginous. Jelly-like, flimy, vifcous. Narcotic. That which deftroys fenfe and ftupifies. Naufea. Sicknefs at the ftomach. Obefity. Fatnefs. Offtfy. To turn to bone. Palliative. That which mitigates, leffens. Peripneumonia. Inflammation round the lungs. Puftules. Pimples with matter in them. Radically. From the root, the bottom. Remit. To leffen, or ceafe partially. Refpiration. The act of breathing. Sedate. Given to inactivity, quiet. Sloughs. Mortified fpots. Spheroidal. Like a fphere. Suppurate. To turn to matter. Topical. Confined to a place or park Torpor. Slownefs. Turgid. Swelled, bloated. Undulate. To proceed like waves. Ventilated. Expofed to the wind. Veftcles. Pimples with water in them, little bladders. i CONTENT? CONTENTS FAMILY ADVISER. A Tage. POPLEXY 77 Afthma 86 Bleeding at the nofe 61 Bite of a mad dog 91 Catarrh. See cold and influenza. Croup or Hives " 28 Chicken Pox 55 Confumption 05 • Cold 73 Colic 87 Cholera morbus, or vomiting and purging of bile 88 Difcharge of blood from the urinary paffage 72 Dyfpepiia, or Indigeftion 80 Dropfies 9X Dofes 96 Epiftaxis. See bleeding at the nofe. Effera, or Nettle Rafh 60 Epllepfy, or Common Fits 83 Fever) Inflammatory 6 _-----Nervous, or Low 8 _______Putrid 1« _------Remittent *4 _.-----Intermittent 16 _-----He&ic 19 .------Scarlet 58 Flux 75 Fainting 79 Gout, Regular 45 _______Atonic 47 _-----MIfplaced 49 ------Retrocedent 49 CON T T. N T S. Infl uenza Hive-, 2g Hooping Cough gy Hyfterics ' o>0 Inflammation of the Eyes 21 -----------of the Brain 2" •-----------of the Stomach ^ r ■-----------of the Interlines -j\ -----------of the Liver 37 -of the Kidney a 3<) 74 Jaundice c^ Locked Jaw l<<\ Lax or Loofenefs 89 Mumps 29 Meafles 56 Menfes, Profufe 68 ---------Obftructed 70 Obftructed Liver 58 Pleurify, true 20 '■---------Baftard , 32 Piles , 67 Palfy 78 Palpitation of the Heart 85 Preferiptions 94 Qjdnzy, Inflammatoiy 25 ---------Malignant, or Putrid Sere Throat 26 Rheumatifm, Intercoftal s.j. -------------Acute 40 -------------Chronic 41 Rickets 93 Sciatica 41 Small Pox, Diftincl 5 1 -----------Confluent 5^ St. Anthony's Fire 5-.! Spitting of Blood Cn\. St. Vitus's Dance 85 Tooth ach 42 Vomltting of Blood 71 Whites 73 F I X I S. ERRATA. In The FAMILY ADVISER. Page 14, Line 5 from the bottom, after the word better,, fupply a period, and change the fucceeding ftop to a comma. 16, Line 15, 16, for fcventeen, read one. 17, Line 7, take out, the &c. do, Line 24, for done, read the cafe. 20, Line 3 from the bottom, after the word remitted, infert a period, and change the fucceeding ftop for a comma. 22, Line 25, after jalap infert and. The firft line of the 8th Chap, read external for «. ternaUy; and internal for internally. PRIMITIVE PHYSIC: O R, AN EASY AND NATURAL METHOD O F CURING MOST DISEASES. By JOHN WES LET, M. A. Homo fum ; humani nihil' a me alienum p:rr.. THE TWENTY THIRD EDITION. REVISED AND CORRECTED. PHILADELPHIA: Printed by Parry Hall, no. 1:9 in chesnut street; and sold by John Dickins, no. l82. RACE STREET NEAR SIXTH STREET, M. DCC XCHI. PREFACE. HEN man came firft out of the hands of the great Creator, clothed in body as well as in foul, with immortality and incor- ruption, there was no place for phyfic, or the art of healing. As he knew no fin, fo he knew no pain, no ficknefs, weaknefs, or bodily diforder. The habitation wherein the angelic mind, the Divinae particula Aurae abode, though originally formed out of the duft of the earth, was liable to no decay. It had no feeds of cor- ruption or diflblution within itfelf. And there was nothing without to injure it: Heaven and earth and all the hofts of them were mild, be- nign and friendly to human nature. The entire creation was at peace with man, fo long as man was at peace with his Creator. So that well might " the morning flars fing together, and " all the fons of God fhout for joy." 2. But fince man rebelled againft the Sove- reign of heaven and earth, how entirely is the fcene changed! The incorruptible frame hath put on corruption, the immortal has put on mortality. The feeds of weaknefs and pain, of ficknefs and death, are now lodged in our inmoft fubftance ; whence a thoufand diforders continually fpring, even without the aid of ex- ternal violence. And how is "the number of thefe w IV PREFACE. thefe increafed by every thing round about us! The heavens, the earth, and all things contain- ed therein, confpire to punifh the rebels againft their Creator. The fun and moon fhed un- wholefome influences from above; the earth ex- hales poifonous damps from beneath ; the beafk of the field, the birds of the air, the fifties of the fea, are in a ftate of hoftility : the air itfelf that furrounds us on every fide, is replete with the fliafts of death : yea, the food we eat, daily laps the foundation of the life which cannot be fuftained without it. So has the Lord of all fecured the execution of his decree,-----" Dull " thou art, and unto dull thou (halt return." o. But can there nothing be found to leffen thofe inconveniences, which cannot be wholly removed ? To foften the evils of life, and pre- vent in part the ficknefs and pain to which we are continually expofed? Without queftion there may. One grand preventative of pain and fick- nefs of various kinds, feems intimated by the great Author of nature in the very fentence that intails death upon us: "In the fweat of thy face " (halt thou eat bread, till thou return to the " ground." The power of exercife, both to preferve and reftore health, is greater than can well be conceived ; efpecially in thofe who add temperance thereto ; who if they do not confine themfelves altogether to eat either " bread or the , herb of the field," (which God does not require them to do) yat fteadily obferve both that kind and PREFACE. v and meafure of food, which experience fhews to be moft friendly to ftrength and health. 4. 'Tis probable, phyfic, as well as religion, was in the firft ages chiefly traditional : every father delivering down to his fons, what he had himfelf in like manner received, concerning the manner of healing both outward hurts, and the difeafes incident to each climate, and the me- dicines which were of the greateft efficacy for the cure of each diforder. 'Tis certain, this is the method wherein the art of healing is preferv- ed among the Americans to this day. Their difeafes are exceeding few ; nor do they often occur, by reafon of their continual exercife, and (till of late) univerfal temperance. But if any are fick, or bit by a ferpent, or torn by a wild beaft, the fathers immediately tell their children what remedy to apply. And 'tis rare that the patient fuffers long; thofe medicines being quick, as well as, generally, infallible. 5. Hence it was, perhaps, that the ancients, not only of Greece and Rome, but even of bar- barous nations, ufually affigned phyfic a divine original. And indeed it was a natural thought, that he who had taught it to the very beafts and birds, the Cretan Stag, the Egyptian Ibis, could not be wanting to teach man, San&ius his animal, mentifque capacius attoe: Yea, fometimes even by thofe meaner creatures: for it was eafy to infer, " If this will heal that creature, VI PREFACE. creature, wbofe flefh is nearly of the fame teT- ture with mine, then in a parallel cafe it will heal me." The trial was made: the cure was wrought: and experience and phyfic grew up together, 6. As to the manner of ufing the medicines here fet down, I fhould advife, As foon as you know your diftemper, (w/hich is very eafy, un- t lefs in a complication of diforders, and'thenyou would do well to apply to a phyfician that fears God :) Firfl, Ufe the firft of the remedies for that difeafe, which occurs in the enfuing coliec- tion ; (unlefs fome other of them be eafier to be had, and then it may do juft as well.) Secondly After a competent time, if it takes no effect, ufe the fecond, the third, and fo on. I have pur- pofely fet down (in moft cafes) feveral remedies for each diforder ; no&only becaufe all are not equally eafy to be procured at all times, and in ail places : but likewife the medicine that cures one man, will not always cure another of the fame difteiTiper. Nor will it cure the fame man at all times. Therefore it was neceffary to have a variety. However I have fubjoined the letter (I) to thofe medicines which fome think infalli- ble. Thirdly, Obferve all the time the greateft exacdnefs in your regimen or manner of living. Abflain from all mixed, all high-feafoned food. Ufe plain diet, eafy of digeftion ; and this as fparingly as you can, confiftent with qafe and ftrength. Drink only water, if it agrees with your PREFACE. vu your ftomach ; if not, good, clear fmall beer. Ufe as much exercife daily in the open air, as you can without wearinefs. Sup at fix or feven on the lighteft food ; go to bed early, and rife betimes. To perfevere with fteadinefs in this courfe, is often more than half the cure. Above all, add to the reft, (for it is not labour loll) that old unfafhionable medicine, prayer. And have faith in God who "killeth and maketh alive, " who bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth " up." 7. For the fake of thofe who defire, through the blefiing of God, to retain the health which they have recovered, I have added a few plain, eafy rules, chiefly tranfcribed from Dr. Cheyne. I. 1. The air we breathe is of great confe- quence to our health. Thofe who have been long abroad in eafterly or northerly winds, fhould drink fome thin and warm liquor going to bed, or a draught of toaft and water. 2. Tender people fhould have thofe who lie with them, or are much about them, found, fweet, and healthy. 3. Every one that would preferve health, mould be as clean and fweet as poffible in their houfes, clothes, and furniture. II. t. The great rule of eating and drinking, is, To fuit the quality and quantity of the food to the ftrength of our digeftion ; to take always fuch a fort and fuch a meafure of food, as fits light and eafy on the ftomach. 2. All viil PREFACE. 2. All pickled, or fmoked, or falted food, and all high-feafoned, arc alone unfit for aliment. 3. Nothing conduces mo-re to health, than abftinence and plain food, with due labour. 4. For ftudious perfons, about eight ounces of animal food, and twelve of vegetable, in twen- ty four hours, are fufficient. 5. Water, though the wholefomeft of all drinks, yet if ufed largely in time of digeftion, is injurious. 6. Strong, and more efpecially fpirituous li- qiiors, are a certain, though flow, poifon, un- lefs well diluted, and cautioufly ufed. 7. Experience fhews, there is very feldom any danger in leaving them off all at once ; un- lefs in time of particular difeafes, as of debility. 8. Strong liquors do not prevent the mifchiefs of a furfeit, nor carry it offfo fafely as water. 9. Malt liquors (except clear fmall beer, or fmall ale, of a due age) are exceeding hurtful to tender perfons. 10. Coffee and tea are extremely hurtful to perfons who have weak nerves. III. 1. All perfons fhould eat very light flip- pers ; and that two or three hours before going to bed. 2. To go to bed about nine, and rife at five, fhould be a general praftice. IV. 1. A due degree of exercife is indifpen- fabJy neceffary to health and long life. 2. Walking PREFACE. IX 2. Walking is the bed exercife for thofe who are able to bear it; riding for thofe who are not. The open air, when the weather is fair, contributes much to the benefit of exercife. 3. We mtty ftrengthen any weak part of the body by conftant exercife. Thus the lungs may be ftrengthened by moderate fpeaking ; the digef- tion and the nerves, by riding ; the arms and hams, by ftrongly rubbing them daily. 4. The ftudious ought to have ftated times for exercife, at leaft two or three hours a-day : the one half of this before dinner, the other before going to bed. 5. They fhould frequently fhave, and fre- quently wafh their feet in cold water. 6. Thofe who read or write much, fhould learn to do it chiefly Handing; otherwife it will im- pair their health. 7. The fewer clothes any one ufes, by day or night, the hardier he will be ; but the habit muft be begun in youth. 8. Exercife, firft, fliould be always on an empty ftomach ; fecondly, fhould never be con- tinued to wearinefs ; thirdly, after it, we fhould take care to cool by degrees : otherwife we ihall catch cold. 9. The flefh-brufh is a moft ufeful exercife, efpecially to ftrengthen any part that is weak. 10. Cold bathing is of great advantage to health : it prevents abundance of difeafes. It pro- motes perfpiration, helps the circulation of the K blood, X PREFACE. blood, and prevents the danger of catching cold. Tender people fhould pour water upon the head be- fore they go it;, and walk in fwiltly. To jump in with the head foremofl, is too great a fhock to nature. It is beft to ufe it immediately after rifing. V. 1. Coftivenefs cannot long confift with health. Therefore care fliould be taken to remove it at the beginning by a gentlemedicine ; and when it is removed, to prevent its return, by foft, cool, open diet; as of vegetables, acid or fweet. 2. Obftructed perfpiration (vulgarly called catching cold) is one great fource of difeafes, Whenever there appears the leaft fign of this, let it be removed by gentle fweats, or purges. •VI. 1. The paffions have a greater influence on health, than moft people are aware of. 2. All violent and fudden paffions difpofe to, or actually throw people into, acute difeafes. 3. The flow and lafting paffions, fuch as grief and hopelefs love, bring on chronic difeafes, and low fevers. 4. Till the paffion, which caufed the difeafe, is calmed, medicine is applied in vain. 5. The love of God, as it is the fovereign re» medy of all miferies, fo in particular it. effec- tually prevents all the bodily diforders the paf- fions introduce, by keeping the paffions them» felves within due bounds. And by the unfpeak- able joy, and perfect, calm, ferenity, and tran- quillity it gives the mind, it becomes the moft powerful of all the means of health and long life. London, June 11, 1747. To ( xi ) To the Members of the .Methodist Episcopal Church. Friends and brethren, THE grand interefis of your fouls will cv-?r lie near our hearts; but wc cannot be un- mindful of your bodies. In fevcral parts of this cxtenfive country, the climate, and in others the food, is unwholefome : and frequently, the phyficians are few, fome of them unfkilful, and all of them beyond the reach of your temporal abilities. A few fmall publications excepted, little has been done by phyfical books, in or(kr to remove thefe inconveniencies : and even thofe have been written in Europe, and do there- fore partake of the confined ideas of the writers, who could not poffibly be fully acquainted with the peculiarities of the various difeafes incident to a people that inhabit a country fo remote from theirs. Simple remedies are in general the moft fafe for fimple djforders, and fometimes do wonders under the bleffing of God. In this view we prefent to you now the primitive phyfic publifhed by our much honoured friend John IVejlcy. Bt;t the difference being in many refpecls great be- tween this country and England, in regard to climate, the conflitution of patients, and even the qualities of the fame fimples,-----we faw it ne- B 2 ceffary ( xii ) ceffary for you, to have it revifed by phyficians pracdifmg in this country, who at our requeft have added cautionary and explanatory notes where they were neceffary, with fome addition- al receipts fuitable to the climate. In this ftate we lay the publication before you, and earneftly recommend it to you. As we apply all the profits of our books to charitable ptirpofes, and the promoting the work of God, we think we have fome right to intreat you (except in particular cafes), to buy only our books, which are recommended by the confer- ence, and figned with our fignature : and as we intend to print our books in future within the \ Jlafcs, and on a much larger fcale than we have hitherto done, we truft we fhall be able foon to fupply you with as many of the choiceft of our publications, as the time and temporal abilities of thofe of you, who do not live a life of ft tidy, will require. We remain, dear brethren, as ever, Your faithful pallors, ThomaJ Coke, Francis Asbury. A Col- ( '3 ) Colle6lron of Receipts. [N. B. We would inform our readers, that the receipts and notes in- clofed in brackets as this is, are inferted by the phyficians who revifed the copy for this impreflion ; and alfo, that the prc- fcriptions marked * are better than the others.] i. Abortion*, (to prevent.) 5j» "T X 7" OMEN of a weak or relaxed habit fhould V V ufe folid food, avoiding great quantities of tea, and other weak and watery liquors. They fhould go foon to bed, and rife early; and take frequent exercife, but avoid fatigue. If of a full habit, they ought to ufe a fpare diet, and chiefly of the vegetable kind, avoiding flrong li- quors, and every thing that may tend to her.t the body, or increafe the quantity of blood. In the firft cafe, take daily half a pint of a decodlion of lignum vitae ; boiling an ounce of it in a quart of water for five minutes. In the latter cafe, give half a drachm of powdered nitre, in a cup of veater-e iiel, every five or fix hours : in both cafes fhe fhould deep on a hard mattrefs and be kept cool and quiet. The bowels fhould be kept regu- lar by a pill of white walnut extract. K 3 2. For * [In the firft cafe, the cold bath ufed two or three times a week, from the beginning to the fixth month of pregnancy, is deemed ef- fe£hMl——1» the latter cafe, bleeding at the arm in the fourth and feventh months may be ufeful.] ( H ) » 2. For an Ague*. Go into the cold bath juft before the cold fit. (j:fr Nothing tends .more to prolong an ague, than indulge ing a lazy, indolent difpofition. The patient ought therefore between the Jits to take as much exercife as he can bear ; and to ufe a light diet, and for common drink, Port ivinc anil ivater is the mojlproper. * When all other means fail, give blue vitriol, from one grain to two grains, in the abfence of the fit, and repeat it three or four times in twenty four hours. Or, boil yarrow in new milk, till it is tender enough to fpread as a plaifler. An hour before the cold fit, apply thi3 to the wrifls, and let it be on till the hot fit is over. If another fit comes, ufe a frefh plaifler.— This often cures a quartan : * Or, put a tea-fpoonful of fait of tartrr into a large glafs of fpring water, and drink it by little and little.- Repeat the fame dofe the next two days, before the time of the fit: * Or, a large fpoonful of powdered camomile flow- ers : * Or, a tea-fpoonful of the fpirits of hartfhorn in a glafs of water. Or, eat a fmall lemon, rind and all. * In the hot fit, if violent, take eight or ten drops of laudnnum : If coftive, with an Anderfon's pill. * Dr. Lind fays, an ague is certainly cured by tak- ing from ten to twenty drops of laudanum, with two drachms of fyrup of poppies, in any warm liquid, half an hour after the heat begins. * ft^T It is proper to take a gentle vomit, and fometimes a purge, before you ufe any of thefe medicines. If a vomit is taken two hours before the fit is expefled, it generally pre- vents that fit, and fometimes cures an ague : efipecially in chil- dren.—// is alfo proper to repeat the medicine ("whatever it be J about a iveck after, in order to prevent a relapfe. Do not * An a?ue is an intermitting fever, each fit of which is preceded by a cold fhivering, and goes off in a fweat. / ( *5 ) not take any purge foon after.—The dally ufe of the Jlejh- brujh, and frequent cold bathing, are of great ufe to prevent relapfes. * Children have been cured by wearing a waiflcoat, in which bark was quilted. fThofe fevers which abate their violence at times, that there appears an -abfence of the fever for a certain period between two fits, are called intermittents, fays Galen. The length of the period determines the name, as quotidian, tertian, double tertian, quartan. The fpring intermittents feldom need the grand fpecific remedy, viz. The Peruvian bark, in this climate, as by adminiftering a vomit of twenty grains of ipeca- cuanha, or of eight grains of the former and one of tartar emetic mixed for a grown perfon, the fucceed- ing heat of the feafon effects the cure, and often with- out medicine. The fall intermittents feldom put on a regular form at firft in adults, but are generally remit- ting fevers ; but even though they approach nearer to a continual fever, the patient feldom needs bleeding, and perhaps never in regular intermittents. In either cafe a vomit as before mentioned, the firfl opportunity in remitting, and two hours before the fit in an inter- nv'tting fever, with warm diluting drinks in the time of the fit, and when intermitting regularly, the bark may be applied after the operation of the vomit, and • the fit is over. Children generally need only to be purged before the ufe of the bark, with jalap or rhu- barb : the dofe of thefe may be thirty grains for a grown perfon, and half the quantity for one of nine years old, and in proportion. After the fever regu- larly intermits, and the ftomach has been cleanfed and the body kept open, the Peruvian bark may be given (unlefs fome inflammation or obflru&ion prevent) im- mediately after the fit, two ounces, and often one is ge- nerally fufficient, thus:—Divide an ounce of powder of the bark into twelve dofes ; let the fick r—i or wo- man take one every two hours between the fits, and continue them after the return of the next; or— Boil an ounce of the bark in a pint and a hale of wa- ter ( 16 ) ter gently down to a pint, ftrain oft the liquid, and take a wine-glafs full every two hours ; or—To an ounce of the bark in powder add four or five fpoon- fuls of proof fpirit and a pint of boiling water, let them infufe two or three days; to ufe as the former.— But it is beft in fubftance when it can be taken.] 3. St. Anthony's Fire*. * Take a glafs of tar-water warm, in bed, every hour, wafhing the part with the fame. (J4T Tar-water is made thus.—Put a gallon of col J wa- ter to a quart cf Norway tar. Stir them together with a flat fich for Jive or fix minutes. After it has food covered for three days, pour off"the ivater ckar, bottle and cork it. Or, take a decoction of elder leaves, as a fweat; ap- plying to the part a cloth dipt in lime water, mixed with a little camphorated fpirits of wine. frrf" Lime-water is made thus.—Infufe a pound of good quick lime infix quarts offpring water for twenty four hours. Decant and keep it for ufe. * Or, take two or three gentle purges.—No acute fever bears repeated purges better than this, efpecially when it affects the head: meantime boil a handful of fage, two handfuls of elder leaves (or bark J and an ounce of alum in two quarts of forge-water, to a pint. Warn with this every night.—See extract from Dr. Tiflbt. If the pulfe be low and the fpirits funk, nourifhing broths and a little negus may be given to advantage: Dreffingthe inflammation with greafy ointments, falves, &c. is very improper. Bathing the feet and legs in warm water is fervicea- ble, and often relieves the patient much. In Scotland the * St. Anthony's fire is a fever attended with a red and painful fwelling, full of pimplef, which afterwards turn into fmall blifters, on the face or fome other part of the body. The fooner the eruption is, the lefs danger. Let your diet be only water-gruel, or barley- broth, with ro.ifkd apples, ( "7 ) »he common people cover the part with a linen cloth covered with meal. 4. The Apoplexy*. * To prevent, ufe the cold bath, and drink only water. In the fit, put a handful of fait into a pint of cold water, and if poffible pour it down the throat of the pa- tient. He will quickly come to himfelf. So will one who feems dead by a fall. But fend for a good phyfi- cian immediately. If the fit be foon after a meal, vomit and bleed. * A feton in the neck, with low diet, has often pre- vented a relapfe. * There is a wide difference between the fanguineous and ferous apoplexy; the latter i§ often followed by a palfy.-----The former is diflinguifhed by the counte- nance appearing florid ; the face fwelled or puffed up ; and the blood-veffels, efpecially about the neck and tem- ples, are turgid ; the pulfe beats ftrong ; the eyes are prominent and fixed; and the breathing is difficult, and performed with a fnorting. This invades more fud- denly than the ferous apoplexy. Ufe large bleedings from the arm, or neck ; bathe the feet in warm water j cupping on the back of the head, with deep fcarifica- tion. The garters fhould be tied very tight to leffen the motion of the blood from the lower extremities. * A fcruple of nitre may be given in water, every three or four hours. * When thepatient is fo far recovered as to be able to fwallow, let him take a ftrong purge ; but if this can- not be effected, a glifler fhould be thrown up wdth plen- ty of frefh butter, and a large fpoonful of common fait in it. In the ferous apoplexy, the pulfe is not fo ftrong, the countenance is lefs florid, and not attended with fo great * An apolexy is a total lofs of all fenfe and voluntary motion, commonly attended with a ftrong pulfe, hard breathing and fnorting. ( i8 ) rvue-t a ddTculty of breathing. Kere bleeding is r.ot K) neceffary, but a vomit of three grains of emet;c tar- tar may be given, and afterwards a purax as before, and a blifter applied to the back of the neck. fjCr" This apoplexy is generally preceded by an i.nujr,al heavinefs, giddinefs y and drowfinfs. 5. Canine Appetite*. _ " If it be without vomiting, is often cured by a fmall bit of bread dipt in wine, and allied to the noflrih." Dr. Schomberg. 6. The Afihmaf. Take a pint of cold water every morning, warning. the head therein immediately after, and ufing the cold bath once a fortnight: Or, cut an ounce of flick liquorice into flices. Steep this in a quart of water, four and twenty hours, and ufe it, when you are worfe than ufual, as common drink. I have known this give much eafe. Or, half a pint of tar-water, twice a day. Or, live a fortnight on boiled carrots only. It fel- dom fails : Or, take from ten to twenty drops of elixir of vitri- ol, in a glafs of water, three or four times a day. (fc§= Elixir of vitriol is made thus.—Drop gradually four ounces of Jlrong oil of vitriol into a pint of fpirits of wine, cr brandy : Jet it fland three days, and add to it gin- ger Jliced, half an ounce, and Jamaica peppery 'whole, one ounce. In three days more it is Jit for ufe. Oe, into a quart of boiling water, put a tea-fpoon- ful of balfamic ether, receive the fteam into the lungs, through a fumigater, twice a day. fclT Balfamic * An infatiable defire of eating. + An afthma is a difficulty of breathing, returning at intervals, frj 1 1 diforder in the lungs. In the common [or ndoiftj afthma, the patient fpits much. ( <9 ) ■ £c3* Balfamic asther is mack thus.—Put four ounces of fpirits of wine, and one ounce ofbalfamoftw'u, inl.i a vial, with one ounce of aether. Keep it 'well corked. But it will not keep above a 'week. For prefent relief, vomit with twelve grains of ipeca- cuanha. 7. A Dry or Convullive Afthma. Juice of radifhes relieves much: fo does a cup of ftrong coffee : or, garlic, either raw, or preferved, or in fyrup : Or, drink a pint of new milk morning and even- ing.—This has cured an inveterate afthma. Or, beat fine faffron fmall, and take eight or ten grains every night.—Tried. Take from three to five grains of ipecacuanha every week. Do this, if need be, for a month or fix weeks. Five grains ufually vomit. In a violent fit, take fif- teen grains. In any afthma, the beft drink is apple-water ; that is, boiling water poured on fliced apples. The food fhould be light and eafy of digeftion. Ripe fruits baked, boiled, or roafled, are very pro- per ; but ftrong liquors of all kinds, efpecially beer or ale, are hurtful. If any fupper is taken, it fhould be very light. * All diforders of the breafts are much relieved by keeping the feet warm, and promoting perfpiration. Exercife is alfo of very great importance; fo that the patient fhould take as much every day, as his ftrength will bear. Iffues are found in general to be of great fervice. Dr. Smyth, in his Formulae, recommends muftard- whey as common drink, in the moift afthma ; and a decoction of the madder-root to promote fpitting. £3" The decoction is made thus.—Boil one ounce of piadder, and two drachms of mace, in three pints of'water, to ( 20 ) to two pints, thenflrain it, and take a tea-cupful three or four times a day. 8. To cure Baldnefs. Rub the part morning and evening, with onions, till it is red ; and rub it afterwards wdth honey. Or wafh it with a decoction of box-wood: Tried. Or, electrify it daily. 9. Bleeding at the Nofe, (to prevent.) Diffolve two fcruples of nitre" in half a pint of water, and take a tea-cupful every hour, if the patient is plethoric. * To cure it, apply to the neck behind and on each fide, a cloth dipt in cbld water: Or, put the legs and arms in cold water : Or, wafh the temples, nofe, and neck with vinegar: Or, fnuff up vinegar and water. * Or, foment the legs and arms with it : Or, fleep a linen lag in fharp vinegar, burn it, and blow it up the nofe with a quill: * Or, apply tents made of foft lint dipped in cold water, flrongly impregnated with a folution of alum, and introduced within the noftrils quite through to their pofterior apertures. Or, diffolve an ounce of alum powdered, in a pint of vinegar; apply a cloth, dipt in this, to the temples, fteeping the feet in warm water. In a violent cafe, go into a pond or river. Tried, .—See extract from Dr. Tiffot. 10. Bleeding of a Wound. Make two or three tight ligatures toward the lower part of each joint: flacken them gradually : Or, ( 21 ) Or, apply tops of nettles bruifed : Or, ftrew on it the afhes of a linen rag, dipt jn fharp vinegar and burnt: Or, take ripe puff-balls. Break them warily, and fave the powder. Strew this on the wound and bind it on. /.—This will ftop the bleeding of an amputa- ted limb. [Or, take of blue vitriol and alum each an ounce and a half, boil them in a pint of water till the falts are dif- folved, then filter the liquid and add a drachm of the oil of vitriol; a foft rag may be dipped in this, and appli- ed up the nofe; or any bleeding we can come at.— Buchan.— Or, ufe the agaric of the oak.] 11. Spitting of Blood'}-. Take two fpoonfids of juice of nettles every morn- ing, and a large cup of decoction of nettles at night, for a week: Tried. Or, three fpoonfuls of fage-juice in a little honey. This prefently flops either fpitting or vomiting blood: Tried. Or, tweaty grains of alum in water every two hours. 12. Vomiting Blood, Take two fpoonfuls of nettle juice. (fcf- This alfo diffolves blood coagulated In the fto- mach.)—Tried. Or, take as much fait petre, as will lie upon half a crown, diffolved in a glafs of cold water, two or three times a day. 13. To difTolve coagulated Blood. Bind on the part for fome hours, a pafte. made of black foap and crumbs of white bread : f [Eata table fpoonful of fine common f.ilt very morning fading, or a tea-fpoonful every three hours, until the Weeding (tops. J ( " ) Or, grated root of burdock fpread on a rag: renew this twice a day. 14. Blifters. On the feet, occafioned by walking, are cured by drawing a needle full of worfted through them, clip it off at both ends, and leave it till the fkin peels off. lj. Biles. Apply a little Venice turpentine: Or, an equal quantity of foap and brown fugar well mixt. Or, a plaifler of honey and wheat flour : * Or, of figs: Or, a little faffron in a white bread poultice. -----'Tis proper to purge alfo. 16. Hard Breads. Apply turnips roafted till foft, then mafhed and mix- ed with a little oil of rofes. Change this twice a-day, keeping the breaft very warm with flannel. 17. Sore Breafts and Swelled. * Apply lead water. Or, boilahandful of camomile and as much mallows ia milk and water. Foment with it between two flannels, as hot as can be borne, every twelve hours. It alfo diffolves any knot or fwelling in any part, where there is no inflammation. 18. A Bruife. Immediately apply treacle fpread on brown paper: Tried. Or, apply - plaifler cf chopt parfley mixt with butter: Or, electrify the pai t. This is the quickefl cure of alb 19. To ( *3 ) 19. To prevent Swelling from a Bruife. * Immediately apply a cloth, five or fix times dou- bled, dipt in cold water, and new dipt when it grows warm : Tried. 20. A Burn or Scald. If it be but fkin deep, immediately plunge the part in cold water, keep it in an hour, if not well before. Perhaps four or five hours : Tried. Or, electrify it. If this can be done prefently, it totally cures the moft defperate burn. Or, if the part cannot be dipt, apply a cloth four times doubled, dipt in cold water, changing it when it grows warm: 21. A deep Burn or Scald. * Apply inner rind of elder well mixt with frefh but- ter. When this is bound on with a rag, plunge the part into cold water. This will fufpend the pain, till the medicine heals. Or, mix lime-water and fweet oil, to the thicknefs of cream, apply it with a feather feveral times a-day. —This is the moft effectual application I ever met with. Or, put twenty-five drops of Goullard's extract of lead, to half a pint of rain-water; dip linen rags in it, and apply them to the pait affected. This is particu- larly ferviceable if the burn is near the eyes. 22. A Cancer*. * Diffolve four grains of white arfenic in a pint of water, one table fpoonful every morning in molafles or milk muft be taken. L2 23. Cfcil- * A cancer is an hard, round, uneven, painful fwelling, of a blackifh or leaden colour, the veins round which feem ready to burft. It comes commonly with a fwelling as big as a pea, which does not stf»:i; give much pain, nor change the colour of the (kin. ( 24 ) 23. Chilblains, (to prevent.) * Wear focks of Chamois leather, or filk. Bitiie the ftet often in cold water, and when this is done, apply a turnip poultice. 24. Children. * To prevent the rickets, tendernefs, and weak- nrrs, dp th-m in cold water every morning, at leail till 'hey nre eight or nine months old. No roller fhould ever be put round their bodies, nor any Mays uftd. Inftead of them, when they are put into fhort petticoats, put a waiftcoat under their frocks. Let them go bare-footed and bare-headed till they are three or four years old at leaft. 'Tis bell to wean a child when feven months old, if it be difpcfed to rickets. It fhould lie in the cradle at leaft a yesr. / No child fhould tcuch any fpirituous or fermented liquor, before two years old. Their drink fnould be water. Tea they fhould never tafle till ten or twelve years old. Milk, milk-porridge, and water gruel, are the proper breakfafts for children. 25. Chin-Cough, or Hooping-Cough. Rub the feet thoroughly with hogr. lard, before the fire at going to bed, and keep the child warm therein s Tried. Or, nib the back at lying down with old rum. It feldom fails: Or, give a fpoonful of juice of penny-royal, mixt wir'i brown fugar-candy, twice a-day : Or, half a pint of milk, warm from the cow, with the quantity of a nutmeg of conferve of rofes diffolved ia it, every morning. » Or, ( 25 ) Or, didblve a fcruple of fait of tartar in a quarter of a pint of clear water : add to it ten grains of finely powdered cochineal, and fweeten it wdth loaf-fugar. Give a child within the year, the fourth part of a fpoonful of this, four times a day, with a fpoonful of barley-water after it. Give a child two years old, half a fpoonful: .a child above four years old, a fpoonful. Boiled apples put into warm milk may be his chief food. This relieves in twenty-four hours, and cures in five or fix days. * Or take two grains of tartar emetic, and half a drachm of prepared crabs claws powdered : let them be mixed very well together. _ . One grain, one grain and a half, or two grains of this compofition, may .be added to five or fix grains of magnefia, and given in a fmall fpoonful of milk and water in the forenoon, between breakfaft and dinner, to a child a year old. * At night, if the fever is very high, half the for- mer dofe of this powder may be given, with from five to ten grains of nitre. In defperate.cafes, change of air will have a good eftcd. 26. Cholera Morbus: i, e. Flux and Vomiting of Bile*. * Boil a chicken an hour in two gallons of water, and drink of this till the vomiting ceafes : Or, decodion of rice, or barley, or tcafted oaten- 'bread. * If the pain is very fevere, fleep the belly with flannels dipt in fpirits and water. Id 3 The » r After *he bowels are wdl emptied by large and frequently re- peated draughts of the ift arid 2d prefcription under this,head, mfent relief, in an extreme low faintv ftate, may be obtained by taking :frmn*< to ?odroPs of liquid laudanum in a glafs of mint tea 1 Us hadofeforVownperfons; if under 15. years cl age, it muft be pro- portioned accordingly.] ( 26 ) * The third day after the cure, take ten or fifteen grains of rhubarb 27. Chops in Women's Nipples. Apply balfam of fugar : * Or, apply butter of wax, which fpeedily heals them. 28. Chopt Hands (to prevent.) • Wafh them with flour of muftard. * Or, in bran and. water boiled together. 29. (To Cure.) Wafh them with foft foap, mixed with red fand: Tried. Or, wafh them in fugar and water: Tried. 30. Chopt Lips* Apply a little fal prunellae. 31. A Cold. Drink a pint of cold water lying down in bed: Tried. Or, a fpoonful of treacle in half a pint of water: Tried. Or, to one fpoonful of oatmeal, and one fpoonful of honey, add a piece of butter, the bignefs of a nutmeg: pour on gradually near a pint of boiling water: drink this lying down in bed. 32. A Cold in the Head. Pare very thin the yellow rind of an orange. Roll it up infide out, and thruft a roll into each noftril. 33-Tb€ ( *7 ) 33. The Cholic (in the Fit.) Drink of camomile tea : Or, take from thirty to forty grains of yellow peel of oranges, dried and powdered in a glafs of water. * Or, take from five to fix drops of oil of anifeed on a lump of fugar. * Or, apply outwardly a bag of hot oats: * Or, fleep the legs in hot water a quarter of an "hour : * Or, take as much Daffy's elixir as will prefently purge. This relieves the moft violent cholic in an hour or two. $$" Daffy's elixir is made thus :—Sena t'wo ounces, jalap one ounce, coriander feed half an ounce ; Geneva, or proof fpirit, three pints ; let them digejl feven days ; Jlrain, and add loaf fugar four ounces. 34. The Dry Cholic, (to prevent.) Drink ginger tea. 35. Cholic in Children*. Give a fcruple of powdered anifeed in their meat: Tried. Or, fmall dofes of magnefia. * Or, a drachm of anifated tincture of rhubarb, eve- ry three hours till it operates. 36. Bilious Cholief. Drink warm lemonade : Or, » [Children fubjedt to daily and fevere cholic pains, fhould take the breaft fparingly, and chiefly be fed on funple chicken brofh. Strong mallows-root tea, taken every now and then, is an excellent medicine in this complain*.] : + This is generally attended with vomiting a greenilh or frothy matter, with feverifh heat, violent thirft, a bitter tatU in the mouth, and little and high-coloured urine. ( *8 ) Or, give a fpoonful of caftor oil*. 37. An Habitual Cholic. * Wear a thin, foft flannel on the part. 38. An Hyfteric -Cholic-j*. Mrs. Watts, by ufing the cold bath two and twenty times in a month, was entirely cured of an hyfteric cholic, fits, andconvulfive motions, continual fweatings and vomiting, wandering pains in her limbs and head, with total lofs of appetite. ' * Take 10, 15, or 20 drops of balfam of Peru on Ane fugar: if need be, twice or thrice a day : Or, in extremity, boil three ounces of burdock- feed in water, which give as a clyfler : * Or, twenty drqps of laudanum, in any proper clyfler ; which gives inftant eafe. [In this diforder there often .is fuch a vomiting, 1 that no medicine for the prefent can be contained on the ftomach long enough to be advantageous. A lit- tle warm water may be given at firft ; then cover the fick with an extraordinary quantity of bed-clothes j when flie becomes warm, the vomiting ceafes ; then a grain of opium may be taken, and if the complaints are not relieved thereby in half an hour, it may be repeated.—A day or two after a warm purge fhould be taken : Tried.] 39. A Ner- *' [Take one taWe-fpoonful of caftor oil, mixed with a fpoonful pf lemon-juice or (harp vinegar fweetened, every hour, until it pur- ges. This is a fafe, eafy, and effectual purge, not only in all thofe complaints where the bowels are the feat of difeafe, but alfo in the intermitting and remitting bilious fevers incident to warm climates. J + Is attended with a violent pain about the pit of the ftomach, with great finking of the fpirits, and often with greeiiifii vomitings. ( 29 ) 39' A Nervous Cholic*. Ufe the cold balh daily for three or four weeks : 40. Cholic from the Fumes of Lead, or White Lead, Verdigreafe, &c. In the fit, drink frefh melted butter, and then vomit with warm water : * To prevent or cure. Breakfaft daily on fat broth, and ufe oil of fweet almonds frequently. Smelters of metals, plumbers, &c. may he in a -good meafure preferred from the poifonous fumes that furrrrund them, by breathing through cloth or flannel mufflers twice or thrice doubled, dipt in a folution of fea-falt, or fait of tartar, and then dried. Thefe muf- fler* might alfo be of great ufe in many fimilar cafes. 41. Windy Cholic. Parched peas eaten freely, hawe had the moft happy effedts, when all other means have failed. 42. To prevent the ill Effects of Cold. The moment a perfon gets into a hotife, with his hands or feet quite chilled, let him put them into a vef- fcl of water, as cold as can be got, and hold them there till they begin to glow. This they will do in a minute or two. This method likewife effe&ually pre- vents chilblains. 43. A Con- ♦ This fome t?rm the dry belly-ach. It often continues f-:veral days, with little urine, and obftinate coftivenefs. A cholic with purging, fome term the watery gripes. 'X 3° ) 43* A Confumption. One in a deep confumption was advifed to drink nothing but water, and eat nothing but water-gruel, without fait or fugar. In three months time he was perfectly well. Take no food but new butter-milk, churned in a bottle, and white bread.—I have known this fuc- cefsful. Or, ufe as common diink, fpring-water, and new milk, each a quart ; and fugar-candy two ounces. Or, boil two handfuls of forrel in a pint of whey. Strain it, and drink a glafs thrice a day: Tried. Or, turn a pint of fkimmed milk, with half a pint of fmall beer. Boil in this whey about twenty ivy- leaves, and two or three fprigs of hyffop. Drink half over night, the reft in the morning. Do this, if need- i ful, for two months daily.—This has cured in a de£- perate cafe : Tried. Or, take a cow-heel from the tripe-houfe ready dreffed, two quarts of new milk, two ounces of hartf- horn-fhavings, two ounces of ifinglafs, a quarter of a pound of fugar-candy, and a race of ginger. Put all thefe in a pot ; and fet them in an oven after the bread is drawn. Let it continue there till the oven is near cold ; and let the patient live on this.—I have known this cure a deep confumption more then once. Or, every morning cut up a little turf of frefh earth, ap.d lying down, breathe into the hole for a quarter of an hour.—I have known a deep confumption cured thus. " Mr. Matters, of Evefham, was fo far gone in a confumption, that he could not ftand alone. I advifed him to lofe fix ounces of blood every day for a fort- night, if he lived fo long ; and then every other day ; then every third day ; then every fifth day, for the fame time. In three months he was well."----(Dr. Dover.) Tried. This prefcription will not be fafe in any ( 3* ) any cafe, but where the pulfe continues pretty ftrong, and there are figns of inflammation. Or, throw frankincenfe on burning coals, and re- ceive the fmoke daily through a proper tube into the lungs : Tried. Or, take in for a quarter of an hour, morning and evening, the fteam of white rofin and bees-wax, boiling on a hot fire-fhovel. This has cured one who was in the third ftage of a confumption. Or, the fteam of fweet fpirit of vitriol dropt into warm water. Or, take morning and evening, a tea-fpoonful of white rofin powdered and mixt with honey.—This cu- red one in lefs than a month, who was very near death. Or, drink thrice a day two fpoonf lis of juice of wa- ter-creffes.—This has cured a deep confumption. In the laft ftage, fuck an healthy woman daily. Tried by my Father. * For diet, ufe milk and apples, or water-gruel made with fine flour. Drink cyder-whey, barley-water fharpened with lemon-juice, or apple-water. So long as the tickling cough continues, chew well and fwallow a mouthful or two, of a bifcuit or cruft of bread, twice a day. If you cannot fwallow it, fpit it out. This will always fhorten the fit, and would often prevent a confumption. See extrad from Dr. Tiffot, page 33- 44. Convulfions. Ufe the cold bath : * Or, take a tea-fpoonful of valerian root powder- ed, in a cup of water, every evening. * Or, half a drachm of miffelto powdered every fix hours, drinking after it a draught of ftrong mfufion thereof. 45. Convul- ( 3* ) 45* Convulfions in Children. Scrape piony-roots frefh digged. Apply what you have fcraped off to the foles of the feet. It helps im- mediately. ' Tried. 46. Convulfions in the Bowels of Children. Give a child a quarter old, a fpoonful of the juice of pellitory of the wath two or three times a-day. It goes through at once, but purges no more. Ufe the fyrup, if the juice cannot be had. 47. Corns (to prevent.) Frequently wafh the feet in cold water. 48. Corns (to cure.) Apply frefh every morning the yeaft of fmall beer, fpread on a rag: Or, after paring them clofe, apply bruifed ivy. leaves daily, and in fifteen days they will drop out: Tried. Some corns are cured by a pitch plaifler. All are greatly eafed by fteeping the feet in hot wa- ter wherein oatmeal is boiled. This alfo helps dry and hot feet. 49. Coftivenefs. Rife early every morning : Or, boil in a pint and a half of broth, half a hand- ful of mallow-leaves chopt : ftrain this and drink it, before you cat any thing elfie. Do this frequently, if needful. Or, I 33 ) Or, breakfaft twice a week or oftcner, on water- gruel with currants : Tried. * Or, take the bignefs of a large nutmeg of cream of tartar mixt with honey, as often as you need. * Or, take daily two hours before dinner, a fmall tea-cupful of flewed prunes : Or, ufe for common drink, water, or treacle-beer, impregnated with fixed air : Or, live upon bread, made of wheat-flour, with all the bran in it. Or, boil an ounce and a half of tamarinds in three pints of water to a quart. In this ftrained, when cold, infufe all night two drachms of fena, and one drachm &f red rofe-leaves. Drink a cup every morning when coftive.—See Dr. Tiffot. $o. A Cough. Make a hole through a lemon and fill it with honey. Roaft it, and catch the juice. Take a tea-fpoonful of this frequently : Tried. [Or, take a table-fpoonful of molaffes each night and morning, and drink in common, molaffes and water: Tried.] Or, take Spanifh liquorice two ounces, fait of tartar half an ounce; boil the liquorice in three pints of wa- ter to a quart. Add the fait to it when it is b^ood- warm. Drink two fpoonfuls of this every two hours. It feldom fails : Tried.—I have known this cure an inveterate moifl afthma. Or, at lying down keep a little flick-liquorice like horfe-radifh, between the cheek and the gums.—■ I believe this never fails. Or, peel at d flice a large turnip, fpread coarfe fu- gar between the flices, and ft it ftand in a dilh till all the juice drains down. Take a fpoonful of this when- ever you cough: * Or, take a fpoonful of fyrup of horehound, morn- ing and evening : Tried: h M Or, ( 34 ) Or, tike from fifteen to twenty drops of elixir of vitriol, in a edafs of water, thrice a-day. This is ufe- ful when the cough is attended with coftiveiiefs, and relaxation of the ftomach and lungs. Or, powder an ounce of fpermaceti fine. Work it in a marble mortar with the yolk of a new-laid egg. Mix them in a pint of white wine, and take a fmall glafs every three hours. Or, drink water whitened with oat-meal four times a-day. Or, keep a piece of barley-fugar, or fugar-candy conftantly in the mouth. 51. Violent Coughing from a fharp and thin Rheum. Work into old conferve of rofes, as much as you can of pure frankincenfe powdered as fine as poflible. Take a bolus of this twice or thrice a-day. It eafes i prefently, and cures in two or three weeks. Or, take half a grain of the infpiffated milky juice of fovvthitlle, once or twice a day. It has the ano- dyne and antifpafmodic properties of opium, without its narcotic effeeds. Or, it may be made into lauda- num, in the fame manner that opium is, and five or fix drops taken on a lump of fugar, thrice a-day. The milky juice of all the fowthiftles, dandelions, and lettuces, have nearly the fame virtues. * Or, ufe milk-diet as much as poflible. 52. The Cramp (to prevent.) Tie your garter fmooth and tight under your knee at going to bed : I never knew this fail. Or, take half a pint of tar-water, morning and evening : * Or, be electrified through the part that ufes to be affe&ed. This generally prevents it for a month : fometimes for a twelvemonth. Or, ( 35 ) Or, to one ounce and a half of fpirits of turpentine, add flour of brimftone and fulphur vivum, of each half an ounce; fmell to it at night, three or four times. 53. The Cramp (to cure.) * CJnf' the part with hungary-watcr : Or, hold a roll of brimftone in your hand. I have frequently dcr.e this with fuccefs. 54. A Cut. Keep it clofed with your thumb a quarter of an hour. Then double a rag five or fix times ; dip it in cold water, and bind it on : Tried. 55. Deafnefs. Be electrified through the ear : Tried. Or, ufe the cold bath : Or, put a little fait into the ear : Or, drop into it a tea-fpoonful of fait water : * Or, three or four drops of onion-juice, at lying down, and flop it with a little wool. 56. Deafnefs from Wax. * Syringe the ear with warm water : Tried. 57. Deafnefs with a dry Ear. * Mix brandy and fweet oil: dip black wool in tlds, and put it into the ear. When it grows dry, wafh it well in brandy: dip it and put it in again. M 2 58. Deli- ( 36 ) 58. Delivery. After delivery in child-birth, the mother's milk is the only proper purge for the child. Let it begin to fuck ten or twelve hours after the birth. 59. A Diabetes*. Drink wine boiled with ginger, as much and as of- ten as your ftrength will bear. Let your drink be milk and water. All milk-meats are good : * Or, drink three or four times a day, a quarter of a pint of alum poffet, putting three drachms of alum to four pints of milk. Tt feldom fails to cure in eight or ten days. (Dr. Mead.) 60. The Dropfy*f. Ufe the cold bath daily, after purging r * Or, rub the fwelled parts w ith fal!ad-oil by a warm hand, at kafl an hour a-day. This hue done wonders in fome cadrs: Or, cover the whole belly with a large new fpunge dipt in ftrong bme-waten and then fcueezed out. This bc*md on civil cures, even without any ienfible evacuation of \va er. Or, apply gr*.en dock-ler ^es to the joints and foles of the feet, changing them once a 'lay. Or, mix half an oiTce of amber with a quart of wine- vinegar, ihat a bdek (only not red hot) and put it dito a tub. Pour them upon it, and hold the parts J welled over the fmoke, covering the tub tlofe to keep in * A diabetes is a frequent and large difcharge of pale and fweetifh urine, attended with a conftant itiirfr, and a walling of the whole body. f A dropfy is a preternatural collection of water in the head, 'ereaft, belly, or all over the body, It is attended with a continual :hirft. The part fwelled pits if you prefs it with your fingers. The, uin.c is pale ind little. ( 37 ) in the fmoke. The water will come out incredibly, and the patient be cured : Tried. Or, eat a cruft of bread every morning falling : Tried. Or, mix a pound of the coarfeft fugar with a pint of juice of pellitory of the wall, bruifed in a marble mor- tar. Boil it as long as any fcum rifes. When cool, bot- tle and cork it. If very bad, take three fpoonfuls at night, and two in the morning. It feldom fails: Tried. Or, make tea of roots of dwarf elder. It works by urine. Every twelve or fourteen minutes, (that is, af- ter tvery difcharge) drink a tea-cup full—I have known a dropfy cured by this in twelve hours time. One was cured, by taking a drachm of nitre every morning in a little ale. Tar-water drank twice a day has cured many ; fo has an infufion of juniper berries roafted, and made into a liquor like coffee : Or, three fpoonfuls of the juice of leeks, or elder- leaves : Tried. * Or, half a pint of decoction of butchers broom (intermixing purges twice or thrice a week.) The proper purge is ten grains of jalap, with fix of powder- ed ginger. It may be increafed or leffened according to the ftrength of the patient. Or, of the decoction of the tops of oak-boughs. This cured an inveterate dropfy in fifteen days: Or, take fena, cream of tartar and jalap, half an ounce of each. Mix them, and take half a drachm e- very morning in broth. It ufually cures in twenty days. This is neaily the fame with Dr. Ward's powder. I fuppofe he took it from hence. He fays it feldom fails, either in the watery or windy dropfy. Or, fleep half an ounce of jalap in a quartern of Geneva for twelve hoins. Draw it off. Divide it in- to three parts, and take it every other morning. T:;en put a large fpoonful of fyrup of mat fa-mallows into half a pint of Hale beer, and when it has boiled a little, coo! it, and drink it at lying down in bed. Do this three times. This has cured many. M 3 Or, ( S« ) Or, be electrified : This cures dropf es fuppore 1 in- curable. £cf~ How amazingly little is yet known, even of tht human body ! Have not dropjical perfons been continually advifed to abjldin from drink as much as pojfbk ? But how can we reconcile this 'with the following undeniable facts, pubfi/bed in the medical tranfactions ? Jane Roberts, aged twenty, was at laft conftrained to take to her bed by a confirmed afcites anafarca. In this defperate cafe, fhe drank as much as fhe would,. firft of fmall beer ; and when that failed, of thin milk. After a while her fkin cracked in many places : and fhe continued drinking and leaking till file was quite well. A middle-aged man in the weft of England, drank every day five or fix quarts of cyder:. and without any other medicine, was totally cured in a few weeks time of a dropfy long fuppofed to be incurable. A farmer aged feventy, in a confirmed afcites, was given over for dead. Being defperate, he drank three quarts of cold water, every four and twenty hours. His whole food meantime was fea-bifcurt, fometimes with a little butter. For fixteen days he feemed woi fe. Then he difcharged for near a week a vaft quantity of water, and was foon free from his difeafe, which never returned. 61. Drowned. Rub the trunk of the body all over with hot fait. It frequently recovers them that feem dead.—See ex- tract from Dr. Tiffot, page 150. And blow into the lungs. 62. The Ear-Ach, without Inflam^ mation. Rub the ear hard a quarter of an hour : Tried. * Or, be electrified : Or, ( 39 ) Or, put in a roafted fig, or onion, as hot as may be : Tried. Or, blow the fmoke of tobacco ftrongly into it. But if the ear-ach is caufed by an inflammation of the uvula, it is cured in two or three hours, by receiv- ing into the mouth the fteam of bruifed hemp-feed,, boiled in water. 63. Ear-Ach from Cold. Boil rue, or rofemary, or garlic, and let the fteam go into the ear through a funnel. 64. Ear-Ach from Heat. Apply cloths four times doubled and dipt in cold water, changing them when warm, for half an hour. 65. Hard-Wax in the Ear. Is beft diffolved by warm water. 66. Eyes bleared. Drop into them the juice of crab-apples. 67. A Blood-mot Eye. * Apply linen rags dipt in cold water two or three hours: Or, blow in white fugar-candy, finely powdered : Or, apply boiled hyffop as a poultice. This has a wonderful efficacy. 68. A Bruife in the Eye. Apply as a plaifler, conferve of rofes. 69. Clouds ( 40 ) 69- Clouds flying before the Eye. Take a drachm of powdered betony every morning. * Or, be electrified. 70. Blindnefs. Is often cuv-ed by cold bathing : Or, by electrifying: Tried. Th's has cured even a gutta ferena of twenty-four years flanding. 71. Dull Sight. Drop in two or three drops of juice of rotten ap- ples often.. 72. Films. Mix juice of ground-ivy, with a little honey, and two or three grains of bayialt.—Drop.it in, morning and evening. 73. Hot or fharp Humours. Apply a few drops of double-refined fugar, melted in brandy : Tried. Or, boil a handful of bramble-leaves, with a little alum, in a quart of fpring-water, to a pint. Drop this frequently into the eye. This likewife cures can- kers or any fores. Or, lay a thin flice of raw beef on the nape of the neck: Tried. 74. Eyes or Eye-Lids inflamed. Apply as a poultice, boiled, roafted, or rotten ap- ples warm. * Or, f 4' ) O *, •■■.•.-.nnwocd-tops with the yolk of an egg: This will 1 rd.y fail. * Oe, beat up the white of an egg with two fpoonfuls of white rofe-wat :v, into a widle froth. A;.,'y this on a fine raj-% chan6' -;. it fo div. v nay not grow dry, till tl>- vc or cye-iid is v. ? il : i died * Or, diiidlvc an ounee of fine gum arab'c in ': vo or three fpoon." es ,: fpri n :•> wa: • . , put a u re;. into the inner corner of the eye., from the yoint oi a hair-pen- cil, foe., or five times a-day. At tlv. r me time take as much fait petre as will lie upon a foe-pence, Ueiclv- ed in a f;lafs of waters th- -e or fjur ♦imr« --day , ab- ftaining *rom all ftrong liquids as much ae poffible, till cured.—White bread povdtices, applied to the eyes in an inflamed late, 'requently occafu 1 total' iindnefs. * After the infkmrrntion is fubfi^ i, if weaknefs ftill remains, dip a finger in the white copperas eye- water, and rub round the eye, three .r four times a- day.—N. B. All acrid eye-waters, and powders, put into the eyes when they are inflamed, horribly increafe both the pain and inflammation. 75. A Lachrymal Fiftula.* Apply a poultice of fine leaves cf rue : Or/ wafh the eye morning and evening with a de- coction of quince-leaves-. 76. Pearl in the Eye. Apply a drop of juice of celandine with a feather thrice a-day : , * Or, diffolve a little fal ammoniac in role-water. Keep this three days in a copper \ euel. Dr op it twice a-day into the eye. * This diforder in the inner corner of the eye, caufes the tears to flow involuntarily. When it is confirmed, only a furgeon can cure it. "• ( 4= ) Or, reduce feparately, to the fineft powder poffible. an cqurl weight of loaf-fugar, cream of tartar, and bole armoniac; mix them together, and put a little into the eye, (without blowing it in) three or four • times a-day. 77. Sore Eyes. Drink eye-bright tea, and wafh the eyes with it. 78. An excellent Eye-Water. * Put half an ounce of lapis calaminaris powdered, into half a pint of French white wine, and as much white rod water : drop a drop or two into the corner of the eye. It cures forenefs, weaknefs, and moft dif- eafes of the eye. I have known it cure total blindnefs. 79. Another. * Boil very lightly one tea-fpoonful of white cop. peras fcrsrped, and three fpoonfuls of white fait in three pints of fpring-water. When cold, bottle it in large vials without ftrainirg. Take ap the vial foftly, and put a drop or two in the eye morning and evening. Q^ It anftvers the intention of almoft all the preceding medicines : r' takes away rednefs, or any forenefs whatever i it cures pearls, rheums, and often blindnefs itfelf. So. Another. Stamp and ftrain ground-ivy, celandine, and dailies, an equal quantity : add a little rofe-water and loaf-fu- gar. Drop a drop or two at a time in the eye, and it takes away all manner of inflammation, fmarting, itching, fpots, webs, or any other diforder whatfo- ever, yea, though the fight were almoft gone. 81. An ( 43 ) 81. An Eye-water, which was ufed by Sir Stephen Fox, when he was fixty years of age, and could hardly fee with the help of fpec- tacles; but hereby in fome time he recovered his fight, and could read the fmalleft print without fpecr tacles, till above eighty. Take fix ounces of rectified fpirits of w ine, diffolve in it one drachm of camphire, then add two fmall handfuls of dried elder flowers. In twenty four hours after it is infufed, it is ready for ufe. Take out a lit- tle in a tea-fpoon : dip your finger in it, and bathe your forehead, over your eyes, and each temple with it feveral times, morning and night, and twice more in the day conftantly. Meantime dip a foft rag in dead fmall beer, new milk warm, and daub each eye a dozen times gently, morning and evening. If it is a watery humour, you may with your finger wet the eye-lids two or three times a-piece : but be fure to fhut your eyes, or it makes them fmart and burn exceffively. If you have the tooth-ach or fwelled face, rub it well in on the part, and it will take away the pain. It will cure any bruife alfo, if ufed imme- diately : Tried. It will cure any inflammation in the eyes. 82. Weak Eyes. * Wafh the head daily with cold water : Tried. [Or, take of white vitriol half a drachm, rofe-wa- ter fix ounces to diffolve it, and filter the water ; to touch the eye often.—The temples and around the eye, may be touched with camphorated fpirits. N. B. If the eyes are inflamed, the patient fliould be blooded or purged ; and if neceffary, blifters behind the ears, or a feton to the back of the neck.] 83. Fainting ( 44 )' ' 83. Fainting on letting Blood. Is prevented by taking before it fome good broth : * Or, by lying on the bed, during the operation. 84. The falling Sicknefs*. Be eleftrified: Tried. * Or, ufe the cold bath for a month daily: Or, take a tea-fpoonful of piony-root dried and gra- ted fir?, morning and evening, for three months: * Or half a fpoonful of valerian root powdered.—It often cu-es in twice taking : Or, half a pint of tar-water, morning and evening, for three months: Or, a glafs of juice of pellitory of the wall, every morning: Tried. Or, take five or fix drops of laudanum fafling, for fix or Lea mornings. This has cured many : * Or, ufe an entire milk-diet for three months: It feldom fails. 0>, leaves of affarabacca powdered.-----fCfr This is the famous Major's fnuff. One who is fubject to the falling ficknefs, may pre- vent a fit if he feels it coming, by this fimple experiment. Let him rlways carry with him a piece of metal as broad as he is able to hold between his teeth, when his jaws are flrctched to the utmoft. \\ hen he feels the fit ap- proaching, let him immediately put this between his teeth, fo as to keep his jaws at their utmoft flretch. In about a minute this will bring him quite to himfelf, and prevent the fit for that time. If one put this metal between the teeth of one that is in the fit, and force them open, dll his jaws are at the utmoft flretch, the fit will immediately go off, and the patient very foon recover. 85. The * In the Falling Sicknefs, the patient falls to the ground, eithet ■quite fliff, or convuifed all over, utterly ienfelefs, gnafhing his teeth| And foaming at the mouth. ( 45 ) 85. The falling of the Fundament. Boil a handful of red rofe-leaves in a quarter of a pint of red wine : dip a cloth in it, and apply it as hot as can be borne. Do this till all is ufed*. 86. A falling down of the Womb. May be cured in the manner laft mentioned : * Or, wear a peffory of cork, and take twice a day a tea cupful of the decoction of the bark, with ten drops of elixir of vitriol. 87. Extreme Fat. * Ufe a total vegetable diet. I know one who was entirely cured of this, by living a year thus : She break- feited and fupped on milk and water (with bread) and dined on turnips, carrots, or other roots, drinking water. 88. A Fever. (In the beginning of any fever, if the ftomach is un- oafy, vomit; if the bowels, purge; if the pulfe be hard, full or ftrong, bleed.) Drink a pint auda half of cold water lying down in bed : I never knew it do hurt. * Or, thin water-gruel fweetened wdth honey, with one or two drachms of nitre in each quart. (tfr The beft of all julaps in a fever is this : Toaft a large thin flice of bread, without burning; put it hot into a pint of cold water: then fet it on the fire till it is pretty hot. In a dry heat it may be given cold, in a moift heat, warm ; the more largely the better : — Tried. N Or, * rOilorgreafe the ends of the fingers well, and reduce it imme- iiately by a gentle continued preffure on the part. This can always eafily be done as foon as the accident happens.] ( 46 ) Or, for a change, ufe pippin or wood-forrcl t«a: or pippin poffet-drink : or wood-forrel poffet-di ink. (To prevent catching any infectious fever, do not breathe near the face of the fick perfon, neither fwal- low your fpittle while in the room. Infection feizcs - the ftomach firft.) * Or, ufe Dr. Boerhaave's fever-powder, viz. Eight ounces of nitre, a quarter of an ounce of camphire, half a quarter of an ounce of faffron, and eight grains of cochineal. Thefe are to be powdered, mixt toge- ther, and kept dry in a bottle. Ten grains taken on going to bed abates feverifh heat, and procures reft. Ten grains are to be taken every thiee or four hour* for a continued fever. 89. A High Fever. Attended wdth a delirium and vigilia, has been cured , by plunging into cold water; which is a fafe and fure remedy in the beginning of any fever. Such a delirium is often cured by applying to the top of the head, a treacle plaifler: Tried. 90. A Fever with Pains in the Limbs. Take twenty drops of fpirits of hartfhorn in a cup of water twice or thrice in twenty-four hours : Or, drink largely of cinquefoil tea. 91. Rafh Fever. Drink every hour a fpoonful of juice of ground-ivy. It often cures in twenty-four hours.—Ufe the decoc*a tion when you have not the juice. / j 92. A Slow Fever. Ufe the cold bath for two or three weeks daily. [In ( 47 ) [In putrid or nervous fevers, though they do not in- termit, yet after proper evacuations, the bark may be advantageouily given, thu-.: Take of the powder of the o irk two ounces, orange peel an ounce and a half, Virginia fnake-root three drachms, En^liih faffron four fcruples, cochineal two fcruples; infufe them in twenty ounces of beft diftilled fpirits : and the fick may take from a drachm to half an ounce occafionally, in ids lucid intervals.—Huxham.—Tried.] 93. A Worm Fever. Boil a handful of rue and wormwood in water ; fo- ment the belly wdth the decoction, and apply the boil- ed herbs as a poultice; repeat the application night and morning. This frequently brings a way worms from children, who will take nO internal medicine; and is likewife ferviceable, if the fever be of the putrid kind. 94. A Fiftula. Wafh mufcle fhells clean ; burn them to powder ; fift them fine ; mix them with hogs-lard ; fpread it on clean wafned leather, and apply it. This cured one that was thought to be at the point of death. N. B. This cures the piles. Or, have a veffel fo contrived, that you may fit with the part in cold water, a quarter of an hour every morn- ing. I have known a gentleman of feventy years cur- ed hereby. Or, put a large flone of unflacked lime into four quarts of water, let it ftand one night ; take four oun- ces of roch-alum, and four ounces of white copperas, calcine them to drynefs, then powder them as fine zi poffible : take three pints of the above water, and pr.t the powder into it, and boil it for half an hour, then let it c«ol, and bottle it for ufe. Let the fiftula be fy- rimred with this often, a little warm ; and make a tent b N2 to ( 4? ) to fit the place, and dip it in the water, and apply it twice a day. Cover it over with a plaifler of diac.dum. This water will deflroy fhe callofity of the edges of the fiflula, which otherwife would prevent its healing, and if managed as above, will heal it up at the fame time ; but an operation is the only certain means. 95. To deflroy Fleas and Bugs. Cover the floor of the room with leaves of alder, gar thered while the dew hangs upon them: adhering to thefe, they are killed thereby. Or, powder ftavefacre, and fprinkle it on the body, or on the bed. 96. Flegm. To prevent or cure, take a fpoonful of warm water, the firft thing in the morning. 97. Flooding (in Lying-in.) Cover the body wdth cloths dipt in vinegar and wa- ter, changing them as they grow warm. Drink cool- ing, acid liquors. This is a complaint which is never to be thought lit- tle of. Sometimes a violent flooding comes on before delivery; and the only way to fave both the mother and child, is to deliver the woman immediately: which being done, the flooding will generally ceafe. Some- times a flight flooding comes on fome weeks before la- bour ; and here, if the patient be kept cool, her diet light, and fmall dofes of nitre often repeated, (an ounce divided into thirty parls, and one given every ^ four hours,) fhe will frequently go her full time and do *jj veil: but if it fliould become exceffive, delivery fhould be effected as foon as may be. * If a flooding fhould come on after delivery, the pati- ent fhould be laid with her head low, kept cool, and be in. ( 49 ) in all refpects treated as for an exceffive flux of the men- fes. Linen cloths which have been wrung out of vine- gar and water, fhould be applied to the belly, the loins, and the thighs. Thefe muft be changed as they grow dry ; and may be difcontinued as foon as the flooding abates. Sometimes the following mixture will do great things, viz. fyrup of poppies, two ounces ; acid elixir * of vitriol one drachm. Mix, and take two table-fpoon- fuls every hour. But large dofes of nitre given often (a fcruple every hour,) is generally the moft effica- cious. But when all other things feem to have ao ef- fect, cold water dafhed upon the patient's belly will flop the flooding immediately. 98. A Flux. Receive the fmoke of turpentine caft on burning coals. This cures alfo the bloody flux, and the falling of the fundament. Or, put a large brown toaft into three quarts of wa- ter, with a drachm of cochineal powdered, and a drachm of fait of wormwood. Drink it all in as fhort a time as you conveniently can. (yef This rarely fails to cure all fluxes, cholera mor- bus, yea, and inflammations of the bowels: Tried. Or, take a fpoonful of plantane-feed bruited, morn- ing and evening, till it flops :• * Or, ten grains of ipecacuanha, three mornings fucceffively. It is likewife excellent as a fudorific. Or, boil four ounces of rafped logwood, or frefh logwood chips, in thiee quarts of water to two ; ftrain it and drink a quarter of a pint, fweetened with loaf- fugar, warm, twdce a-day. It both binds and heals: Or, take a fmall tea-cupful of it every hour : this is to be ufed in the end of the complaint. Or, boilthe fat of a breaft of mutton in a quart ef water for an hour. Drink the broth as foon as you can conveniently. This will cure the moft inveterate ilex: Tried.— S'?e extract from Dr. Tiffot, pe.ge 124. N 3 99. A ( SO ) 99. A Bloody Flux. [Is attended with a fever, griping, or great pain id the inteflines.—As this fever is nature's effort to dif- charge fome offenfive matter by flool, therefore often. it will be neceffary to affiil her by bleeding and purging, or laxative medicines; or elfe it will be unfafe to flop the flux, but when the former medicines have been ufed with mutton broth; the drink may be water boiled with one fourth milk, and drank cold. In old dyfen- teries, fruit and milk may be a proper diet : Tried.] Or, take a large apple, and at the top pick out all the core, and fill up the place with a piece of honey- comb, (the honey being flrained out,) roaft the apple in ember?, and eat it, and this will flop the flux imme- diately : Or, grated rhubarb, as much as lies on a fhilling, with half as much of grated nutmeg, in a glafs of white wine, at lying down, every other night : Tried. Or, take four drops of laudanum, and apply to the belly a poultice of wormwood and red rofes boiled in milk. In a dyfentery, the worft of all fluxes, feed on rice,,. faloup, fago, and fometimes beef-tea ; but no flefli. To ftop it, take a fpoonful of fuet melted over a flow fire. Do not let blood. [ctf A perfon was cured in one day, by feeding on rice-milk, and fitting a quarter of an hour in a fhallow tub, having in it warm water three inches deep.—Sec extract from Dr. Tiffot, page 125. 100. To prevent (or ftop a beginning) Gangrene. Foment continually with vinegar, in which drofs of iron (either fparks or clinkers) has been boiled. 101. The ( 5« ) roi. The Gout in the Stomach. u Diffolve two drachms of Venice treacle in a glafs of mountain wdne. After drinking it, go to bed. You will be eafier in two hours, and well in fixteen." (Dr. Dover.) Or, boil a pitgil * of tanfey in a quarter of a pint of mountain. Drink it in bed. I believe this never fails. * To prevent its return, diffolve half an ounce of gum guaiacum in two ounces of fal volatile. Take a tea- ipoonful of this every morning in a glafs of fpring- water. (fcf* This helps any Jbarp pain in the Jlomach.—Dr. Boerleeaareec. N. B. I knew a gentleman who was cured many times, by a large draught of cold water. 102. The Gout in the Foot or Hand. Apply a raw, lean beef-flake. Change it once in twelve hours, till cured : Tried. . 103. The Gout in any Limb-f-. Rub the part with warm treacle, and then bind on a flannel fmeared therewith. Repeat this, if need be, once in twelve hours. (tg- This has cured an inveterate gout in thitty-fi;; hours. Or, di ink a pint of ftrong infufion of elder-buds, dry or green, morning and evening. This has cured inve- terate gouts. Or, at fix in the evening, undrefs, and wrap your- felf * A Pugil is as much as you can take up between jour thumb and two fore-fingers. + Regard them not who fay, the gout ought not to be cured. They mean, it cannot. I know it cannot by their regular prefcripti- »os. But 1 have known it cured in many cafes without any ill ef. feel's following. I have cured myfeif fever*! times. ( p ) felf up in blankets. Then put your legs up to the knees in water, as hot as you can bear it. As it cool?, let hot water be poured in, fo as to keep you in a ftrong fweat till ten. Then go into a bed well warmed, and fweat till morning.----1 have known this cure an inve- terate gout, in a perfon above fixty, who lived eleven years after.----The very matter of the gout is frequent- ly deftroyed by a fteady ufe of Mynficht's elixir of vitriol. [Or, take gum guaiacum four ounces, fait petre two ounces, diffolve them fourteen days in two pounds of Jamaica fpirits ; take two fpoonfuls morning and even- ing. But the grand medicine will be temperance and. exercife.] 104. The Gravel. Eat largely of fpinach : Or, drink largely of warm water fweetened'withi honey : Or, of pellitory of the wall tea, fo fweetened : Or, infufe an ounce of wild parfley feeds in a pint of white wine for twelve days. Drink a glafs of it falling, three months; To prevent its return, break- faft for three months on agrimony tea. It entirely cured me twenty years ago, nor have I had the leaft fymptom of it fince.. 105. The Green Sicknefs*. Take a cup of decoction of lignum guaiacum, (commonly called lignum vitae) morning and evening : Or, grind together into a fine powder three ounces of the fineft fleel-filings, and two ounces of red fugar- candy. Take from a fcruple to half a drachm every morning. /.----See Dr. Tiffot. 106. To * [Is known by a deptaved appetite, (hortnefs of breath, pallid countenance, foft fwelling of the body, palpitation of the heart .ind retention of the menfes. J ( 53 ) 106. To kill Animalcula that caufe the Gums to wafte away from the Teeth. Gargle thrice a day with fait and water. 107. To make the Hair grow. Wafh it every night with a flrong decoction of rofe- mary. Dry it with flannel: Tried. 108. The Head-Ach. Rub the head for a quarter of-an hour : Tried. Or, be electrified : Tried. Or, apply to each temple the thin yellow rind of a lemon, newly pared off: * Or, pour upon the palm of the hand a little bran- dy and fome zeft* of lemon, and hold it to the forehead: Or, a little aether : Or, if you have catched cold, boil a handful of rofe- mary in a quart of water. Put this in a mug, and hold your head (covered with a napkin) over the fleam, as hot as you can bear. Repeat this till the pain ceafes : Tried. Or, fnuff upthe nofe camphorated fpirits of lavender; Or, a little juice of horfe-radifh. 109. A Chronical Head-Ach. Keep your feet in warm water, a quarter of an hour before you go to bed, for two or three weeks : Tried. Or, wear tender hemlock leaves under the feet, changing them daily : * Or, order a tea-kettle of cold water to be poured on your head, every morning, in a flender ftream : Or, * Zeft is the juice of the peel f Or, chew five or fix pepper-corns a little: then fwallow them: Or, chew fennel or parfley, and fwallow your fpit- tle.—Sometimes a vomit is needful. Or, a piece of Spanifh liquorice. 116. The Hiccup (to prevent.) Infufe a fcruple of mufk in a quart of mountain wine, and take a fmall glafs every morning. 117. (To Cure.) Swallow a mouthful of water, flopping the mouth and ears : Tried. Or, take any thing that makes you fneeze : Or, two or three preferved damfons : * Or, three drops of oil of cinnamon, on a lump of fugar : Tried. Or, ten drops of chymical oil of amber dropt on fu- gar, and then mixed with a little water. 118. Hoarfenefs. Rub the foles of the feet before the fire, with gar- lic and lard well beaten together, oyer night. The hoarfenefs will be gone the next morning : Tried. Or, take a pint of cold water lying down : Or, fwallow flowly the juice ofradifhes : Or, half a pint of muflard-whey, lying down : Or, a tea-fpoonful of conferve of rofes, every night: Tried- ™ , 1. Or, dry nettle-roots in an oven. Then powder them finely, and mix with an equal -quantity of treacle., Take a tea-fpoonful of this twice a-day : Or, boil a large handful of wheat-bran in a quart of water; ftrain, and fweeten it with honey. Sip of it frequently. 119, Hypo- ( 56 ) H9- Hypochondriac and Hyfteric Diforders. Exercife, and a little good wine. Five grains of afafoetida, twice a-day. Or, Cold bathing *. 120. The Jaundice. Wear leaves of celandine upon, and under the feet: Or, take a fmall pill of Caftile foap every morning, for eight or ten days : Tried. Or, beat the white of an egg thin : take it morning and evening in a glafs of water : /. Or, half a pint of ftrong decoction of nettles : Or, of burdock-leaves. Or, boil three ounces of burdock-root, in two quarts of water to three pints. Drink a tea-cupful of this every morning. 121. Jaundice in Children. * Take half an ounce of fine rhubarb, powdered. Mix wdth it thoroughly, by beating, two handfuls of good well cleanfed currants. Of this give a teaufpoon- ful every morning. 122, The Iliac Paflion^f. * Apply warm flannels foaked in fpirits of wine : Or, hold a live puppy conftantly on the belly. (Dr. Sydenham.) Or, immerge up to the breaft in a warm bath : Or, take, ounce by ounce, a pound and a half of quickfilver.—See Dr. Tiffot, page 120. Inflammations * In the abfence of an attack. + In this violent kind of cholic the excrements are fuppofed to be thrown up by the mouth in vomiting. ( 57 ) Inflammations in general are more certainly abated by fmart purging than by bleeding*. 123. An Impofthume. * Put the white of two leeks in a wet cloth, and {0 roaft them in afhes, but not too much. Stamp them in a mortar with a little hogs-greafe. Spread it thick, plaifter-wife, and apply, changing it every hour, till all the matter be come out. /. 124. The Itch-f. Wafh the parts affected with ftrong rum: Tried. Or, anoint them with black foap. * Or, fleep a fhirt half an hour in a quart of water, mixed with half an ounce of powdered brimftone. Dry it flowly, and wear it five or fix days. Sometimes it needs repeating: Tried. Or, beat together the juice of two or three lemons, with the fame quantity of oil of rofes. Anoint the parts affected. It cures in two or three times ufing. 125. The King's Evilf. Take as much cream of tartar as lies on a fixpence, every morning and evening : Or, drink for fix weeks half a pint of a ftrong decoc- tion of devil's bit: Tried. Or, ufe the diet drink, as in the article Scorbutic Sores. I have known this cure one whofe breaft was as full of holes as an honey-comb: O Or, * [Befides the ufe of the firft, fecond, arid third prefcriptions under this head, take caftor oil, as directed in the note to Bilious Cholic. j t This diltemper is nothing but a kind of very fmall lice, which burrow under the.(kin. Therefore inward medicines are abfolutely needlefs.-----Is it poflible any phyfician mould be ignorant of this? J It commonly appears firft, by the thicknefs of the lips, or a ftubbom humour in the eyes, then come hard fwellings, in the ncofc; chiefly; then running fores. ( 53 ) Or, fet a quart of honey by the fire to melt. AVhcn it is cold, ftrew into it a pound and a half of qtiM k-hme beat very fine, and fifted through a hair- fieve. Stir this about till it boil up of itfelf into a hard lump. Beat it when cold, very fine, and fift it as before. Tade of this as much as lies on a milling, in a glafs of water, every morning falling, an hour before breakfaft, at four in the afternoon, and at going to bed : _ Or, make a leaf of dried burdock into a pint of tea. Take half a pint twice a day, for four months. I have known this cure hundreds. The beft purge for the king's evil is tincture of jalap, which is made thus :—Jalap in powder, three ounces; Geneva, or proof fpirits, one pint. Let them infufe feven days. A tea-fpoonful or two is fufficient for a child ten years old, in a morning failing ; and repeat- ed once a week, fo as to keep the ftomach and bowels clean, will frequently cure the king's evil. But all vi- olent purges, or when repeated too often, are perni- cious. 126. Lamenefs, from a fixed Contrac- tion of the parts*. Beat the yolk of a new-laid egg very thin, and by a fpoonful at a time, add and beat up with it three oun- ces of water. Rub this gently into the parts for a few minutes; three or four times a day. 127. Legs Inflamed. Apply fuller's earth fpread on brown paper. It fel- dom fails : Or, bruifed turnips. 128. Legs * [Anoint the part well with fweet oil, and rub it in with the hand, continuing the frittion lor half an hour or an hour, every night ar.d morning, until well. Or, bind the caul of a newly killed animal dole on the part j to he repeated if neceffary. J ( 53 ) 128. Legs fore and running. Wafh them in brandy, and apply alder-leaves charg- ing them twice a-day. This Will dry up all the fores, though the legs were I !fe an honeycomb : Tried. Or, poultice them with rotten apples : Tried. But take alio three or four purges. 129. Leprofy*. Ufe the cold bath : Or, wafh in the fea, often and long : Or, mix well an ounce of pomatum, a drachm of pow- dered brimftone, and half an ounce of fal piunellae; and anoint the parts fo long as there is need : Or, add a pint of juice of houfe-leek, and half a pint of verjuice, to a pint and a half of poffet-drink. Drink this in twenty-four hours:—It often cures the quinfy, and white fwellings on the joints: Or, drink half a pint of cellery-whey, morning and evening. This has cured in a moft defperate cafe : Or, drink for a month, a decoction of burdock- ha-v^i, morning and evening : Tried. 130. Lethargy-)-. fin tiff ftrong vinegar up the nofe : Or, take half a pint of decoction of wuter-creffes, morula? and evening. 131. Lice (to kill.) Sprindl: Spanifh fnuff over the head. Or, v. ;.fhit with a decoction of amaranth. O z 132. For * In this difeife, the fkin in ma ,y part; is cr,v;-.-3d uith rough, v>!iitif!i, fcalv • ..'ftules ; and if thefe are rujbcJ eft", with u kind of '"-.'alv fcurf. ' . „ +' [A leth u-y is a conftant inclination to dofe, oroc a fleep, with hiiic or no :<.v.:r.] ( <5o ) 132. For one feemingly killed with Lightning, a Damp, or furTocated. * Plunge him immediateljtinto cold water : * Or, blow ftrongly witnbellows down his throat. This may recover a perfon feemingly drowned. It is ftill better, if a ftrong man blows into his mouth. 133. Lues Venerea. Take an ounce of quickfilver every morning, and a fpoonful of aqua fulphurata in a glafs of water, at five in the afternoon. I have known a perfon cured by this, when fuppofed to be at the point of death, who had been infected by a foul nurfe, before fhe was a year old. (tf-1 infert this for the fakeof fuch innocent fuffertrs. 134. Lunacy. Give decoction of agrimony four times a-day : Or, rub the head feveral times a-day with vinegar in which ground-ivy leaves have been infufed : * Or, take daily an ounce of dillilled vinegar : Or, boil juice of ground-Jvy with fweet oil and white wine into an ointment. Shave the head, anoint it there- with, and chafe it in warm every other day for three weeks. Bruife alfo the leaves, and bind them on the head, and give three fpoonfuls of the juice warm every morning, fjdr This generally cures melancholy. The juice alo:ie, taken twice a-day, will cure. Or, ekctrify: Tried. 135. Raging Madnefs*. Apply to the head, cloths dipt in cold water :■ * Or, * It is a fure rule, that all mad men are cowards, an 1 may be co'i- (j-jered by binding only, without benting. (Dr. AJead.) He alio o'i.ervi-s, that bhftering the head does more harm than good. K-.:n thch-uJ clo.'e ftnved, and frequently vvufti it wall vinegar. ( 6-r ) * Or, fet the patient with his head under a great water-fall, as long as his ftrength will bear: Or, pour water on his head out of a tea-kettle : Or, let him eat nothing but apples for a month : Or, nothing but bread and milk : Tried. 136. The Bite of a Mad Dog. Plunge into cold water daily for twenty days, and keep as long under it as poflible.-----This has cured, even after the hydrophobia was begun*. Or, mix afhes of trefoil with hog's lard, and anoint the part as foon as poffible. Repeat it twice or thrice at fix hours dillance. (f3r This has cured many : and particularly a dog bit on the nofe by a mad dog. Or, mi:e a pound of fait, with a quart of water. Squeeze, bithe, and wafh the wound with this for an hour. Then bind fome fait upon it for twelve hours. N. B. The author of this receipt was bit fx times by mad dogs, and always cured himfelf by this means. Or, mix powdered liver-wort, four drachms: black pepper, two drachms : Divide this into four parts, and take one in warm milk for four mornings falling. Dr. Mead affirms he never knew this fail: But it has fome- times failed. Or, take two or three fpoonfuls of the juice of rib- wort, morning and evening, as foon as poffible after the bite. Repeat this for two or three changes of the moon. It has not been known to fail. [To prevent the diforder in thofe who have been bit- ten ;—Cauterize the wound, and drefs it twice a day with digeflive, and once a day with mere jrial ointment. Tyffot. Wafh the wound well, and drefs it every day with fait. Keep the wound open 40 days.] O 3 137- The • If this be really a nervous diforder, what wonder if it fhould bi cured by cold bathing ? ( Cz ) 137. The Mealies*. fydT Immediately confult an honeft phyfician : * Drink only thin water-gruel, or milk and water,, the more the better; or toafl and water. Li the cough be very troublefome, take frequently a fpoonful of barley-water fweetened with oil of new almonds newly drawn, mixed with fyrup of maiden-hair. * After the meafles, take three or four purges, and for fome weeks take care of catching cold, ufe light di- et, and drink barley-water, inftead of malt-chink. Sec extract from Dr. Tiffot, page 82. 138. Menfes Obftruded. Be electrified: Tried. Or, take half a pint of fining decoction of penny- royal, every night at going to bed : Or, boil five large heads of hemp, in a pint of water, to half. Strain it, and drink it at going to bed, two or three nights. It feldom fails : Tried. * Or, take from three to four grains of calomel, in a pill, for two or three nights, taking care not to catch cold. It purges : Tried. Let any of thefe medicines be ufed at the regular times as near as can be judged.-----See Dr. Tiffot. 139. Menfes Profufe. Drink nothing but cold water, with a fpoonful of fine flour ftirred in it. At that time drink a glafs of the coldeft water you can get, and apply a thick, cloth dipt in cold water : Or, put the feet into cold water: Or, apply a fponge dipt in red wine and vinegar: Or, bleed in the arm. Stop the orifice often with. the finger,. a:.d then let it bleed again : Or, * Thisdiftemper is always preceded by a violent coush, often four- teen days before, the red fpots come out. ( *3 ) * Or, boil four or five lcr.vcs of the red holy-oak in a pint of mill:, with a fmall quantity of fugar. Drink this in the morning ; if the perfon can afford it, (he may add a tea-fpoonful of balm of Gileai. This does not often fail: * Or, reduce to a fine powder half an ounce of alum, with a quarter of an ounce of dragon's blocd. In a violent cafe, take a quarter of a drachm every half hour. It fcarce ever fails to ftop the flux, before half an ounce is taken. This alio cures the whites. [If the ftrength will admit, take a little blood from the arm ; the body fnould be kept loofe. Let her take a tea-cupful of alum-whey every tb rce or four hours, __made thus : Put two drachms of powdered alum in- to a pint of milk, boil it till the curd is well feparat- ed, then ftrain off the whey and bottle it. The like medicine in floodings, and in the whites, has been found often ufeful: Tried.] 140. To refolve coagulated Milk. Cover the woman with a table-cloth, and hold a pan of hot water, juft under her breaft ; then ftroke it three or four minutes. Do this twice a day, till it is cured. 141. To increafe Milk. Drink a pint of water going to bed : Or, drink largely of pottage made with lentils. 142. To make Milk agree with the Stomach. If it lie heavy-, put a little /sit in it; if it curdle, fugar. For bilious perfons mix it vvit.i waUr. 143. A ( 64 ) 143. A Mortification (to flop). * Apply a poultice of flour, honey, and water, with a little yeaft. [A gangrene is when any part of the body, from the violence of the inflammation is not actually dead, but is in a ftate of dying.—Galen. The inflammation fhould be abated by bleeding, if the fever admit, and by cooling, opening medicines; the parts around touched with vinegar, lime-water, or camphorated fpirits, and fcarified. Apply a poultice of bifcuit of fine wheat flour boiled with milk to the gangrened part, and take the bark freely. N. B. No oily fubftance fhould ever touch a bone, found or unfound, but foul bones fliould be drefLdd with fpirits, as tincture of myrrh, &c.J 144. Nervous Diforders. When the nerves perform their office too languidly, a good air is the firft requifite. The patient alfo fhould rife early, and as foon as the dew is off the ground, walk : let his breakfaft be mother of thyme tea, gathered in June, ufing half as much as we do of common tea. When the nerves are too fenfible, let the perfon breathe a proper air, let him eat veal, chick- ens, or mutton. Vegetables fliould be eat fparingly; the moft innocent is the French bean ; and the beft root, the turnip. Avoid all fauces. Sometimes he may breakfaft upon a quarter of an ounce of the powder of valerian root infufed in hot water, to which he may add cream and fngar. Tea is not proper. When the perfon finds an uncommon oppreffion, let him take a large fpoonful of the tincture of valeiian root. Q^* This tinPure Jhould be made thus : Cut to pieces fx ounces of wild valerian root, gathered in June, and frejb dried. Bndife it by a few Jlrokes in a mortar, that the pieces may be fplit, but it fhould not be beat into po Stone (to prevent.) Eat a cruft of dry bread every morning : Tried. Or, drink a pint of warm water daily, juft bef re dinner. After difcharging one ftone, this will prtvent the generating of another. Stoop down and raiie your- felf up again. If you feel pain as if cut through the mid- dle, the pain is not from the ftone, but rheumatifm. Beware of coftivenefs. Ufe no violent diuretics. Mead is a proper drink. Or, ' ( «3 ) Or, flice a large onion ; pour half a pint of warm wa- ter upon it. After it has flood twelve hours, drink the water. Do this every morning till you are well. 205. In a raging Fit. Beat onions into a pulp and apply them as a poultice, to the back, or to the groin. It gives fpeedy eafe in the moft racking pain : Tried. Or, apply heated parfley. 206. Stone (to eafe or cure.) Boil half a pound of parfnips in a quart of water. Drink a glafs of this, morning and evening, r.nd ufe no other drink all the day.—It ufually cures in fix week.-;: 1 Or, tike morning and evening, a tea-fpoonful of onion:., calcined in a fire-fhovel into white afhes, in white wine. An ounce wdll often diffolve the ftone." Or, take a tea-fpoonful of violet-feed powdered, morning and evening. It both walles the ftone, and brings it away. Or, drink largely of water impregnated with fixed air*. Thofe who have not a convenient apparatus, may fubilitute the following method: Diffolve fifteen grains of fait of tartar in fix fpoonfuls of water, to which add as much water, acidulated with oil of vitriol, as will neutralize the fait. They are to be gradually mixed with each other, fo as to prevent the effervefcence or diffipation of the fixed air, as much as poffible. 207. Stone in the Kidneys. Boil an ounce of common thiflle-roct, and four drachms of liquorice, in a pint of water. Drink half of it every morning. Q_2 208. Stop. * ("Soi'ie h.ive been much relieved by drinking a pint of cold v/ater falling in the morning, and again at bed time at night. J ( 84 ) 2o8. Stoppage in the Kidneys. Take decodlion, or juice, or fyrup of ground-ivy, morning and evening: Or, half a pint of tar-water. Or, twelve grains of fait of amber in a little water. 209. The Stranguary. Sit over the fteam of warm water: Or, d'.iuk largely of decodlion of turnips, fweetened with clarified honey: Or, of warm lemonade : Tried. * Or, diffolve half an ounce of fait petre in a quart of water; drink a glafs of it every hour. 210. Sunburn, (fmarting.) Wafh the face with fage-tea. 211. A frefh Surfeit. Take about a nutmeg of the green tops of worm- wood. 212. To ftop profufe Sweating. * Mix an ounce of tindlure of peruvian bark, with half an ounce of fpirit of vitriol. Take a tea-fpoonful morning and night, in a glafs of water. 213. Swelled Glands in the Neck. * Take fea-water every other.day. 214. Indolent Swellings. Are oft.n cured by warm fleams. 215. Soft ( 85 ) 215. Soft and flabby Swellings. Pump cold water on them daily : Or, ufe conftant fridlions : or, proper bandages. 216. A white Swelling (on the Joints.) Hold the part half an hour every morning, under a pump or cock. This cures alfo pains in the joints. It feldom fails : Tried. Or, pour on it daily a ftream of warm water: Or, a ftream of cold water one day, and warm the next, and fo on by turns: Ufe thefe remedies at firft, if poffible. It is like- wife proper to intermix gentle purges, to prevent a re* lapfe : Or, boiled nettles. 217. To dilTolve white or hard Swel- lings. Take white rofes, elder-flowers, leaves of fox-glove, and of St. John's-wort, a handful of each : mix them with hog's-lard, and make an ointment. Or, hold them morning and evening in the fteam of vinegar, poured on red hot flints. ' 218. To fatten the Teeth. Put powdered alum, the quantity of a nutmeg, in a quart of fpring water, for twenty-four hours. Then ftrain the water, and gargle with it : Or, gargle often with phyllerea-leaves boiled with a little alum in forge-water. 219. To clean the Teeth. * Rub them with afhes of burnt bread. Q. 3 220. To ( 86 ) 22o. To prevent the Tooth-Ach. * Wafh the mouth with cold water every morning, and rinfe them after every meal. 22i. To cure the Tooth-Ach. Be electrified through the teeth : Tried. Or, apply to the aching tooth an artificial magnet: Or, rub the cheek a quarter of an hour: Or, lay roafted parings of turnips, as hot as may be, behind the ear: Or, put a leaf of betony, bruifed, up the nofe : Or, lay bruifed or boiled nettles to the cheek: Tried. Or, lay a clove of garlic on the tooth : Or, hold a flice of apple, flighrly boiled, between the teeth: Tried. Or, diffolve a drachm of crude fal ammoniac in two drachms of lemon juice ; wet cotton herein and apply: Or, keep the feet in warm water, and rub them well with bran, juft before bed-time : Tried. (c^ The firft twenty teeth generally laft till the fixth or feventh year. After that, till the fourteenth or fif- teenth year, they fall out one by one, and are fucceed- ed by others. The fhedding of the teeth is wifely intended, and brought about in a, fingular manner. Their hardnefs will not admit of diftention like other parts of the body. Hence, after an enlargement of the jaw-bone, the ori- ginal teeth are no longer able to fill up the cavities of it. They muft ftand unfupported by each other, and leave fpaces between them. Under the firft teeth therefore is placed a new fet, which by conftantly pref- fing upon their roots, rob them of their nourifhment, and finally pufh them out of their fockets. 222. Tooth- ( 87 ) 222. Tooth-Ach from cold Air. Keep the mouth full of wrarm water. 223. Teeth fet on Edge. Rub the tops of the teeth with a dry towel. (tfr There is no fuch thing as worms in the teeth. Children's ufing coral, is always ufelefs, often hurtful. f< Forcing the teeth into order is always dangerous. Filing is generally hurtful. " All rough and cutting powders deftroy the teeth : fo do all common tindlures. " Sweetmeats are apt to hurt the teeth, if the mouth be not rinfed after them.----Cracking nuts often breaks off the enamel: fo does biting thread in two. * " Conftant ufe of tooth-picks is a bad pradlice 1 conftant fmoaking of tobacco deftroys many good fets of teeth." Mr. Beardmore. 224. Extreme Thirfl (without a Fever.) Drink fpring-water, in which a little fal prunellas is diffolved. 225. Pain in the Tefticles. Apply pellitory of the wall beaten up into a poul- tice, changing it morning and evening. 226. Tefticles inflamed. Boil bean-flour, in three parts water, one part vi- negar. 227. To ( 88 ) 227. To draw out Thorns, Splinters and Bones. Apply nettle-roots and fait : Or, turpentine fpread on leather. 228. Thrufh*. Mix juice of celandine with honey, to the thickncfo of cream. Infufe a little powdered faffron : let this fimmer a while and fcum it : apply it (where needed) with a feather. At the fame time give eight or ten grains of rhubarb ; to a grown perfon, twenty: Or, take an ounce of clarified honey; having fcum- med off all the drofs from it, put in a drachm of roch- alum, finely powdered, and ftir them well together. Let the child's mouth be rubbed well with this, five or fix times a-day, with a bit of rag tied upon the end of a flick : and even though it be the thorough thrufh, it will cure it in a few days. I never knew it fail. [_As they generally proceed from too hot a regimen, or the child being deprived of its mother's milk, or from acid humours, the child fhould be purged. Five grains of rhubarb and thirty of magnefia alba may be rubbed together, and divided into fix dofes, one of which fhould be given every four hours. Then take fine honey, an ounce ; borax, a drachm ; burnt alum half a drachm ; rofe-water, two drachms: mix them to touch the parts with : Buchan.] 229. Tonfils fwelled. Wafh them with lavender-water. 230. Torpor j * Little white ulcers in Ae month. ( 89 ) 230. Torpor; or, Numbnefs of the Limbs. Ufe the cold bath, with rubbinp- and fweati;v« 23 1. Twifting of the Guts. Ufe injedlion of tobacco fmoak. 232. Tympany; or, Windy Dropfy. Ufe the cold bath with purges intermixt: Or, mix the juice of leeks and of elder. Take two or three fpoonfuls of this, morning and evening : Tried. Or, eat a few parched peas every hour. 233. A Vein or Sinew cut. Apply the inner green rind of hazel frefh fcraped. 234. The Vertigo, or Swimming in the Head. * Take a vomit or two: * Or, ufe the cold bath for a month : Or, in a May morning, about fun-rife, fnuff up dai- ly the dew that is on the mallow-leaves : Or, apply to the top of the head, fhaven, a plaifler of flour of brimftone, and whites of eggs : Tried. Or, take every morning half a drachm of muftard- feed : Or, mix together one part of fait of tartar, with three parts of cream of tartar. Take a tea-fpoonful in a glafs of water, every morning, falling. "This is ferviceable when the vertigo fprings from acid, tough phlegm in the ftomach. 235. Vigilia, f 90 ) 235. Vigilia, Inability to Sleep. Apply to the forehead, for two hours, cloths four times doubled and dipt in cold water. I have known this applied to a lying-in woman, and her life faved thereby: Or, take a grain or two of camphire. Affafcetidn, from ten to thirty grains, likewife will in moft cafes anf^er. 236. Bite of a Viper or Rattle-Snake. Apply bruifed garlic: Or, rub the place immediately with common oil.—> Quere, Would not the fame cure the bite of a mad dog ? Would it not be worth while to make the trial on a dog ? [Or, take a quantity of hore-hound, bruife it well in a mortar, and fqueeze out the juice ; likewife plan- tane in like manner : a table-fpoonful of thefe liquids mixed together in equal quantities, is to be taken eve- ry three hours till the infection is done, and the beat- en herbs are for a poultice to the part, having firft cleanfed it well: Or, apply the liver and guts of the ferpent to the 'Wound, Good in the bite of any ferpent.] 237. To prevent the Bite of a Viper. Rub the hands with the juice of radifhes. 238. An Ulcer. Diy and powder a walnut-leaf, and ftrew it "on, and lay anc.her walnut-leaf on that: Tried. Or, boil walnut-tree leaves in water with a little fu- gar. Apply a cloth dipt in this, changing it once in two days. Tbi: has done wonders. On ( 91 ) Or, foment morning and evening with a decodlion of walnut-tree leaves, and bind the leaves on. This has cured foul bones ; yea, and a leprofy : Tried. 239. Ulcer in the Bladder or Kidneys. Take a decodlion of agrimony thrice a-day : Or, decodlion, powder, or fyrup of horfe-tail. 240. Ulcer in the Gum or Jaw. Apply honey of rofes fharpened with fpirit of vitriol: Or, fill the whites of eggs boiled hard and flit, with myrrh and fugar-candy powdered. Tie them up, and hang them on fticks lying a crofs a glafs. A liquid diftills, with which anoint the fores often in a-day. 241. A Fiftulous Ulcer, Apply wood-betony bruifed, changing it daily. 242. A Bleeding varicous Ulcer in the Leg. Was cured only by conftant cold bathing. 243. A malignant Ulcer. Foment morning and evening, with a decodlion of mint. Then fprinkle on it finely powdered rue : Or, burn to afhes (but not too long) the grofs flalk on which the red coleworts grow. Make a plaifter with this and frefh butter. Change it once a-day : * Or, apply a poultice of boiled parfnips. This will cure even when the bone is foul: Or, be electrified daily : Tried. 244. An ( 9* ) 244* ^n eafy and fafe Vomit. Pour a difh of tea on twenty grains of ipecacuan- ha. You may fweeten it if you pleafe. When it has ftood four or five minutes, pour the tea clear off, and drink it. 245. To flop Vomiting. Apply a large onion flit acrofs the grain, to the pit of the ftomach : Tried. * Or, take a fpoonful of lemon-juice and fix grains of fait of tartar. 246. Bloody Urine. Take twice a-day a pint of decoction of agrimony : Or, of decoction of yarrow. 247. Urine by Drops with Heat and Pain. Drink nothing but lemonade : Tried. Or, beat up the pulp of five or fix roafted apples with near a quart of wafer. Take it at lying down. It commonly cures before morning. 248. Involuntary Urine. Ufe the cold bath : Or, take a fpoonful of powdered agrimony in a lit- tle water, morning and evening : Or, a quarter of a pint of alum poffet-drink every night ; Or, foment with rofe-leaves and plantane-leaves, boiled in a fmith's forge-water. Then apply plaifters of alum and bole armoniac, made up of oil and vinegar: Or, apply a blifter to the os facrum. This feldom fads. 249- SharP ( 93 ) 249* Sharp Urine. Take two fpoonfuls of frefh juice of ground-ivy. 250. Suppreffion of Urine. Is fometimes relieved by bleeding : Or, drink largely of warm lemonade : Tried. Or, a fcruple of nitre, every two hours : Or, take a fpoonful of juice of lemons fweetened with fyrup of violets. 251. Uvula* inflamed. Gargle with a decodlion of beaten hemp-feed: Or, with a decoction of dandelion : Or, touch it frequently with camphorated fpirits of wine. 252. Uvula relaxed. Bruife the veins of a cabbage-leaf, and lay it hot on •the crown of the head: repeat, if needed, in two hours. I never knew it fail. * Or, gargle with an infufion of muftard-feed. 253. Warts. Rub them daily with a radifh: Or, with juice of marigold-flowers: it will hardly fail: Or, water in which fal armoniac is diffolved : Or, apply bruifed purflain as a poultice, changing it twice a day. It cures in feven or eight days. 254. Weaknefs in the Ankles. • Hold them in cold water a quarter of an hour morn- ing and evening. r 2^A * This is ufsally called the palate of die mouth, ( 94 ) •255- A foft Wen. Wrap leaves of forrel in a wet paper, and roaft them in the embers. Mix it with finely lifted aflies into a poultice. Apply this warm daily. Dr. Riviere fays, " I cured a wen as big as a large fifl, thus : I made an inflrument of hard wood, like the flone with v.hich the painters grind their colours on a marble. With this I rubbed it half an hour twice a day. Then I laid on a fuppurating plaifter very hot which I kept on four or five days. The wen fuppur- ated and was opened. Afterwards all the fubftance of It turned into matter, and was evacuated. Thus I have cured many fince." 256. The Whites. Live chaflly. Feed fparingly. Ufe exercife con- ftantly. Sleep moderately, but never lying on your back. , ... Or, boil four or five leaves of the white holy-oak in a pint of milk with a little fugar. Then add a tea- fpoonful of balm of Gilead. Drink this every morn- ing.—It rarely fails : Or, make Venice turpentine, flour, and fine fugar, equal quantities, into fmall pills. Take three or four of thefe morning and evening. This alfo cures moft pains in the back : Or, take yellow rofin, powdered, one ounce ; con- ferve of rofes, half an ounce ; powdered rhubarb, three drachms ; fyrup, a fufficient quantity to make an elec- tuary. Take a large tea-fpoonful of this twice a-day, in a cup of comfrey-root tea. Or, in a quarter of a pint of water wherein three drachm3 of tamarinds and a drachm of kntifli-wood has been boiled: when cold, infufe fena, one drachm, coriander-feed and liquorice a drachm and a half of each. Let them ftand all night. Strain the liquor in the morning, and drink it daily two hours before break- faft: 257- A ( 95 ) 257- A Whitlow^ Apply treacle : Tried. Or, honey and flour : Tried. Or, a poultice of chewed bread! Shift it once a- day : Or, a poultice of powdered pit-coal, and warm water. 258. Worms*. Take two tea-fpoonfu!s of brandy fweetened with loaf-fugar : Or, a fpoonful of juice of lemons: or two fpoon- fuls of nettle juice : Or, boil four ounces of quickfilvcr an hour in a quart of clear water. Pour it off and bottle it up. You may ufe the fame quickfilver- again and again. Ufe this for common drink : or at leaft, night and morning, for a week or two. Then purge off the dead worms with fifteen or fixteen grains of jalap. Or, take two tea-fpoonfuls of worm feed, mixed wdth treacle, for fix mornings : Or, one, two, or three drachms of powdered fern- root, boiled in mead. This kills both the flat and round worms. Repeat the medicine from time to time. Or, diffolve an ounce of hepatic aloes, in a pint of ftrong decoction of iue. Take a tea-fpoonful or two, in a morning falling. This deftroys both round worms, and afcarides: * Or, give one tea-fpoonful of fyrup of bear's-foot at bed time, and one or two in the morning for two or three fucceeding days, to children between two and fix years of age ; regulating the dofe according to the. ftrength of the patient. R 2 Syrup * A child may be known to have the worms, by chillnefs, pale- nefs, hollow eyes, itching at the ,nofe, ftarting in fleep, and an un- ufual (linkingbre.-.th—Wonns are never found in children that live wholly upon milk. f 96 ) Syrup of bear's-foot is made thus : Sprinkle trie green leaves ™ith vinegar, flamp and ftrain out the juice, and add to it a fufficient quantity of coarfe fugar. This is the moft powerful medicine for long round worms. Bruifing the green leaves of bear's-foot, andfmelling often at them, fometimes expels worms : Or, mix and reduce to a fine powder, equal parts of rhubarb, fcammony, and calomel, with as much dou- ble refined fugar,. as is equal to- the weight of all the other ingredients. The dofe for a child, is from fix grains to twelve, once or twice a week. An adult may take from twenty grains to forty, for a dofe. Or, boil half an ounce of aloes, powdered, with a few fprigs of rue, wormwood, and camomile, in half a pint of gall, to the confiftency of a plaifler : fpread this on thin leather, and apply it to the ftomach, changing it every twelve hours, for three days; then take fifteen grains of jalap, and it will bring vaft quantities of worms away, fome burft and fome alive. This will cure, when no internal medicine avails. See extract from Dr. Tiffot, page 14c. [Or, take ten grains of camomile, thirty grains of rhubarb, and as much finely powdered chalk, orcyfter- fliells, for fix powders when rubbed together ; one to be taken every morning, noon, and right; for a child five years eld. Keep him from cold water. Take two drachms of quickfilver, boil it in half a pint of water till half is confumed, pour off the liquor and give him half a tabic fpoonful thrice a-day, and lay by the quickfilver.] 259. Wounds. If you have not an honeft Surgeon at Hand, Apply juice or powder of yarrow: I. Or, bind leaves of ground-ivy upon it: Or, wood-betony bruifed. This quickly heals even cut veins and finews, and draws out thorns and fplinters; Or, ( 97 ) Or, keep the part in cold water for an hour, keep- ing the wound clofed with your thumb. Then bind on the thin fkin of an egg-fhell for days or weeks, till it falls off of itfelf. Regard not, though it prick or fhoot for a time. 260. Inward Wounds. Infufe yarrow twelve hours in warm water. Take a cup of this four times a day. 261. Putrid Wounds. Wafh them morning and evening with warm decocti- on of agrimony. If they heal too foon, and a matter gathers underneath, apply a poultice of the leaves pounded, changing them once a day till well: * Or, a^ply a carrot-poultice ; but if a gangrene comes on, apply a wheat-flour poultice, (after it has been by the fire, till it begins to ferment,) nearly cold. It will not fail. [One of the beft poultices for feparating or fuppura- ting, will be found to be made of bifcuit of fine wheat flour, boiled in milk : and moft additions or refinements on it only leffen its value ; fometimes it may be proper to touch it over with a little fweet oil or frefh butter; and in extreme pain, in other cafes, with liquid lauda- num.]; 262. Wounded Tendons. Boil comfrey-roots to a thick mucilage or jelly, and apply this as a poultice, changing it once a-day. 263. To open a Wound that is clofed too foon. Apply bruifed centaury. R 3 264. Daffy's C 98 ) 264. Daffy's Elixir. Take of the beft fena, guaiacum, liquorice fliced fmall, anifeeds, coriander-feeds, and elicampane-root, each half an ounce; raifins of the fun, floned, a quar- ter of a pound: let them all be bruifed, and put into a quart of the beft brandy. Let it ftand by the fire for a few days, then ftrain it.—See page 27. 265. Turlington's Balfam. Take of balfam of Peru, balfam of Tolu, Angeli- ca-root, and calamus-root, of each half an ounce ; gum florax in tears, and dragon's-blood, of each one ounce; gum Benjamin, an ounce and a half; hepatic aloes and frankincenfe, of each two drachms; let the roots be fliced thin, and the gums bruifed; and put all the ingredients into a quart of fpirits of wine; fet the bottle by the fire in a moderate heat for eight or ten days, then ftrain it for ufe. This is indeed a moft excellent medicine, for man or beaft, and for any frefh wonnd. I know of none like it.. 266. Stoughton's Drops. Take gentian-root, one ounce; cochineal and faf- fron, one drachm; rhubarb, two drachms ; the leffer cardamom-feed, grains of paradife, zedoary, fnake-root, of each half an ounce ; galengale one ounce ; flice the roots, and bruife the feeds ; then infufe them in a quart of the beft brandy, and add the rinds of four Seville oranges. When it has ftood eight days, clear it off; and put a pint and a half more of brandy to the fame ingredients till their virtue is drawn out. This i» greatly helpful in diforders of the ftomach.—See fto- machic tincture, page 82. 267. Dr. ( 99 ) 267. Dr. James's Powders. Inftead of giving hrdf a crown a packet for thefe- powders, you may, at any druggift's, get Dr. Hard- wdck's fever-powder, for a fhilling an ounce, which, (if it be not the fame,) will anfwer juft-the fame end„ COLD- ( '» ) COLD-BATHING Cures Young Children of CONVULSIONS* Cutaneous inflammations, pimples, and fcaba Gravel Inflammation of the ears, navel, and mouth Rickets* Suppreffion of urine Vomiting Want of fleep. It prevents the Growth of Hereditary Apoplexies Afthmas Blindnefs King's evil Melancholy Palfies Confumptions Deafnefs Rheumatifm* Stone. Gout It frequently cures every Nervous*, and every Paralytic Diforder : in particular, Ague of every fort* Atrophy Coagulated blood after bruifes Convulfions* Convulfive pains Epilepfy* Hyfteric * And this, I apprehend, accounts for its frequently curing the bite of a mad dog, efpecially if it be repeated for twenty or thirty days fuccefllvely. ( *ox ) Hyfteric pains Incubus Involuntary ftool or urine Lamenefs (Old) leprofy Lethargy Lofs of appetite Nephritic pains Pain in the back, joints, ftomach Rheumatifm (chronic)* Rickets* Rupture Suffocations Sciatica Surfeits (at the beginning) Scorbutic pains Swelling on the joints Torpor of the limbs, even when the ufe of them is'loft Tetanus* Tympany Vertigo St. Vitus's dance Vigilia Varicous ulcers The Whites * Wife parents fhould dip their children in cold wa- ter every morning, till they are three quarters old; and afterwards their hands and feet. * Wafhing the head every morning in cold water, prevents rheums, and cures old head-achs, and fore eyes. Water Drinking generally prevents * Apoplexies, convulfions, gout* hyfteric fits, mad- nefs, palfies, flone, trembling. To this children fhould be ufed from their cradles. The beft water to drink, efpecially for thofe who are much troubled with the wind, is rain-water. Af- ter it has fettled, draw it off clear into another vedel, and it will keep fweet for a long time. Elecdnfying, ( *°2 ) Electrifying, in a proper manner, cure:; Blindncfs Blood extravafated Bronchocele Burns or fcalds Coldnefs in the feet Contraction of the limbs Convulfions Cramp Deafnefs* Falling ficknefs Feet violently difcrdered Felons Fiftula lachrymalis Fits Ganglions Gout Head-ach Involuntary motion of the eye-llda Knots in the flefti Lamencfs Wafting Weaknefs of the legs Reftores bulk and fulnefs to wafted limbs Locked jaws or joints Leprofy Menftrual obftruclions Ophthalmia Pain in the ftomach Palfy* Palpitation of the heart Rheumatifm* Ring-worms Sciatica Shingles Sinews fhrunk Spafms Stiff joints Sprain, however obi. Sore throat Tooth- ( i<>3 ) Tooth -ach* Ulcers Wens. Drawing fparks removes thofe tumours on the eye- lids, called barley-corns, by exciting local inflamma- tion, and promoting fuppuration. Nor have I yet known one fingle inftance, wherein it has done harm : fo that I cannot but doubt the vera- city of thofe who have affirmed the contrary. Dr. De Haen pofitively affirms, " it can do no hurt in any cafe:" that is, unlefs the fhock be immoderately ftrong. Failing-fpittle outwardly applied every morning, has fometimes relieved, and fometimes cured Blindnefs Contracted finews from a cut Corns, (mixt with chewed bread and applied every morning) Cuts (frefh) Deafnefs Eye-lids, red and inflamed Scorbutic tetters Sore legs Warts. Taken inwardly, it relieves or cures Afthmas Cancers Falling ficknefs Gout Gravel King's evil Leprofy Palfy Rheumatifm Scurvy Stone Swelled liver. The beft way is, to eat about an ounce of hard bread, or fea-bifcuit, every morning, fafting two or three hours after. This fhould be done, in flubborn cafes, for a month or fix weeks. * * I advife all in or near London to buy their medicines at the Apothecaries' Hall. There they are fure to have them good. CONTENTS, CONTENTS. A No. BORTION to prevent - - i For an Ague - z St. Antbony's Fire - 3 Apoplexy ' - - - - 4 Canine Appetite - - - - 5 The Afthma 6 A Dry or Convulfive Afthma 7 To cure Baldnefs - - 8 Bleeding at the Nofe (to prevent) - 9 Bleeding of a Wound - - - 10 Spitting Blood - - - - 11 Vomiting Blood - - - 1 z To diffolve coagulated Blood - - 13 Blifters - - - -14 Biles - - - if Hard Breafts - - - - 16 Sore Breafts and Swelled - - -17 A Bruife . - . 18 To prevent Swelling from a Bruife - 19 A Burn or Scald 20 A deep Burn or Scald - - - 21 A Cancer . 22 Chilblains (to prevent), &c. - - 23 Children - 24 Chin-Cough, or Hooping-Cough - - 25; Cholera Morbus, i. e. Flux and Vomiting 26 Chops in Women's Nipples - 27 Chopt Hands (to prevent) - 28 .----------(to cure) 29 Chopt Lips "'---- 30 A Cold 3x A Cold in the Head - - - 32 The Cholic (in the Fit) - - -33 CONTENTS. No. The Dry Cholic (to prevent) - - 34 Cholic in Children - - - 35 Bilious Cholic . - - - 36 An Habitual Cholic - - - 37 An Hyfteric Cholic - - - 38 A Nervous Cholic ... 39 Cholic from the Fumes of Lead, White Lead, Verdigreafe, &c. - - 4° Windy Cholic 41 To prevent the ill Effefts of Cold - - 42 A Confumption - - - 43 Convulfions - 44 Convulfions in Children - - 45 Convulfions in the Bowels of Children - 46 Corns (to prevent) 47 .---- (to cure) - - - - 48 Coftivenefs - 49 A Cough - - - . - - 50 Violent Cough from a fharp and thin Rheum 51 The Cramp (to prevent) - - 52 ____----(to cure) 53 A Cut.....54 Deafnefs - 55 Deafnefs from Wax - - - 5° Deafnefs with a dry Ear - - - 57 Delivery _ - - 5 A Diabetes - 59 The Dropfy - - " g° Drowned - ~ , The Ear-Ach, without Inflammation - 02 Ear-Ach from Cold - - "a Ear-Ach from Heat - ' ?4 Hard Wax in the Ear °5 Eyes bleared - A Blood-fbot Eye - - - ~ 2 A Bruife in the Eye JJS Clouds flying before the Eye 09 Blindnefs - - - " - 7° Dull Sight - - - " I1 Films.....It Hot or fharp Humours - - - /3 CONTENTS. Eyes or Eye-lids inflamed - - 74 Lachrymal Fiftula - - - - 75 Pearl in the Eye - - * - - 76 Sore Eyes - - - - 77 An excellent Eye-Water - - -78 Another - - - - '79 Another - - - - 80 An Eye-Water, &c. - - - 81 Weak Eyes - - - - 82 Fainting on letting Blood - - - 83 The falling Sicknefs 84 The falling of the Fundament - - 8e The falling down of the Womb - - 86 Extreme Fat - - - - 87 A Fever - - 88 A high Fever - - 89 Fever with Pains in the Limbs 90 A rafh Fever - - - - gi A flow Fever - 92 A Worm Fever - - - - 93 A Fiftula - - 94 To deftroy Fleas and Bugs - - 9J Flegm - - - - - 96 Flooding (in Lying-in) - - *■ 97 A Flux - - - - - 98 A Bloody Flux - - _ - - 99 To prevent (or ftop a beginning) Gangrene 100 The Gout in the Stomach - - - 101 The Gout in the Foot or Hand - 102 The Gout in any Limb - - - 103 The Gravel - - - - 104 The Green Sicknefs - - - 105 To kill Animalcula that caufe the Gums to wafte away from the Teeth - - - 106 To make the Hair grow - - - 107 The Head-Ach - - - J 08 A Chronical Head-Ach - - - 109 Head-Ach from Heat - - - no A Nervous Head-Ach - - - 1 r r A violent Head-Ach - - - 112 S 2 CONTENTS. No. A Hemicrania - - - -113 Stoppage in" the Head - - - 114 The Heart-burning - - - 115 The Hiccup (to prevent) - - - 116 -------■----(to cure) - - - 117 Hoarfenefs - - "- 118 Hypochondriac and Hyfteric Diforders - 119 The jaundice - - - r 20 Jaundice in Children - - - 121 The Iliac Paffion - - - 122 An Impofthume - - - - 123 The Itch - - - 124 The King's Evil - - - 125 Lamenefs from a fixed Contraction of the Parts 126 Legs inflamed - - - 127 Legs fore and running - - 128 Leprofy - - - - 129 Lethargv - - . 130 Ii:-f£'!dm . - . f'a. *».t >"'.r.'!-:r;i; y.iued wit.i nt.um:^ a ^..,„-, cr la«oca-:ev.i - - -132 Lues Venerea - - 13$ Lunacy . - - - -134 Raging Madnefs - - - 135 The Bite of a Mad Dog - - 136 The Meafics - - - 137 LL'mcs obftructed - - - 138 Jdcnfes profufe - - - " ' 39 To refolve coagulated .VKlk - - 14O To increafe Milk - - - - 141 To make Milk agree with the Stomach - 142 A Mortification (tfe flop) - - 143 Nervous Diforders - - - 144 Nettle Rafh - - - - 145 Old Age - - - - 146 An old ftubborn Pai:i in the Back - 14*7 'i^Paliy - - - - i+i \ddy ot the Hands - - - 149 1 'alfy cf the Mouth - - - 150 .I'ad'y from working wirh White L?ad ox Ver- diirreafe ■, - - - 1 r t CONTENT S, No. The Palpitation, or Beating of the Heart - 1^2 Phlegm, (fee Flegm) - - - 153 The Piles (to prevent) - - - 154 The Piles (to cure)^ - - - 159 The inward Piles - - - ic6 Violent Bleeding Piles - - 1^7 The Pleurify - - - - 158 To one Poifoned - - - 159 Polypus in the Nofe - - - 160 A Prick or Cut that fefters - - - 161 Ptyalifra - - - - 162 An eafy Purge - - - - 163 A ftronger Purge - - - 164 The Quinfy - - - - 165 A Quinfy of the Breaft - - - 166 The Rheumatifm - - - 167 To rcftore the Strength after a Rheumatifm 168 Rickets (to prevent or cure) - - 169 Ring-Worms - - - - 170 A Rupture - - - - 171 A Rupture in Children - - 172 A fcald Head - - - 173 The Sciatica - - - - 174 Inflammation or Swelling of the Scrotum - 17^ A Scorbutic Atrophy - - - 176 Scorbutic (Jume - - - T77 Scorbutic Sores - - - i~j& The Scurvy . - - - 179 A broken Shin - - - - 180 Shingles - - - - 181 Sickifhnefs in the Morning - - 182 Sinews fhrunk - - - -183 Skin rubbed off - - -184 Small-Pox - - - - i85 A long running Sore in the Back - - 186 A Sore Leg - l87 A Sore Mouth - - - - 188 A Sore Throat - - - - 189 A putrid Sore Throat - - - - 19° A Sprain - l9l s 3 CONTENTS. No. A venomous Sting - - 192 Sting of a Bee - - - - 193 Sting of a Nettle - - •• 194 StingofaWafp - 195 Sting of a Bee or Wafp in the Eve - - 196 Sting in the Gullet - - - 197 A Stitch in the Side - - - 198 Accidental Sicknefs, or Pain in the Stomach 199 Pain in the Stomach from bad Digeftion - 200 Choleric hot Pains in the Stomach - 201 Coldnefs of the Stomach - 202 Pain in the Stomach with Coldnefs and Wind 203 Stone (to prevent) - 204 In a raging Fit - - - 205 Stone (to eafe or cure) - - 206 Stone in the Kidneys - 207 Stoppage in the Kidneys - - 208 The Stranguary - 209 Sunburn (fmarting) - - - 210 A frefn Surfeit - - - - 211 To flop profufe Sweating - - 21a Swelled Glands in the Neck - - 213 Indolent Swellings - - 214 Soft and flabby Swellings - - 215 A white Swelling (on the Joints) - 216 To diflblve white or hard Swellings - - 217 To fallen the Teeth - - - 218 To clean the Teeth - - - 219 To prevent the Tooth-Ach - - 2 20 To cure the Tooth-Ach - - - 221 Tooth-Ach from cold Air - - 222 Teeth fet on Edge - - 223 Extreme Thirfl (without a Fever) - 224 Pain in the Tefticles - 22c Teflicles inflamed ... - 226 To draw out Thorns, Splinters, and Bones 227 Thrufh - 228 Tonfils Swelled - - 229 Torpor, or Numbnefs of the Limbs - - 230 Twifting of the Guts - - 231 Tympany, or windy Dropfy - - 232 CONTENTS. No. A Vein or Sinew cut - - 233 The Vertigo, or Swimming in the Head - 234 Vigilia, Inability to Sleep - - 233; Bite of a Viper or Rattle-Snake - - 236 To prevent the Bite of a Viper - - 237 An Ulcer - 238 Ulcer in the Bladder or Kidneys - - 239 Ulcer in the Gum or Jaw - - 240 A Fiftulous Ulcer - - - - 241 A Bleeding varicous Ulcer in the Leg - 242 A malignant Ulcer - - 243 An eafy and fafe Vomit - - 244 To ftop Vomiting - - - - 24 c Bloody Urine - - - 246 Ujine by Drops with Heat and Pain - 247 Involuntary Urine - 248 Sharp Urine - - 249 Suppreflion of Urine - - 250 Uvula inflamed - - 251 Uvula relaxed - - - - 252 Warts ----- 253 Weaknefs in the Ankles - ■ -254 A foft Wen 25c The Whites - 256 A Whitlow - - - - 257 Worms - - 25** Wounds - - - - 259 Inward Wounds - 260 Putrid Wounds - - - 261 Wounded Tendons - - - 262 To open a wound that is clofed too foon - 263 Daffy's Elixir - - 264 Turlington's Balfam - - 269 Stoughton's Drops - - 266 Dr, James's Powders - - 267 THE END. 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