COMPLEAT FAMI

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Source: The compleat family physician : or, universal medical repository. Containing the Causes, Symptoms, Preventions, And Cures, Of all the various Maladies to which Human Nature is subject, from the Birth to the Grave. Including The Diseases peculiar to Seamen, as well as those of particular Climates; such as the East and West Indies, Coast of Guinea, Greenland, Newfoundland, &c. with the proper Methods of treating Lunaticks, and Persons who are subject to Fits of any Kind. - And the best and most ap by Smythson, Hugh; Royal College of Physicians of London. n 80046799 (1781), paragraph-5297.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• A falivation may alio be raifed by the internal ufe of mercurials ; and five grains of calomel, given in a bolus every other night, will in general anfwer this purpofe
• After a falivation, the following decoc- tion is advifed to be drank, to the quantity of three half pints or a quart a day, for three weeks or a month
• of the root of farfaparilla bruifed, four ounces— -of ginfeng root bruifed, half an ounce
• Boil them in two quarts of water over a gentle fire, till it is reduced to one quart; when it is cold, {train it for ufe
• of red wine, half a pint — tincture of myrrh and common honey, of each half an ounce
• Or, take of the mucilage or jelly of quince feeds, two ounces — of tinCture of rofes, one ounce

Method as extracted

1. Take of the root of farfaparilla bruifed, four ounces— -of ginfeng root bruifed, half an ounce.
2. Boil them in two quarts of water over a gentle fire, till it is reduced to one quart; when it is cold, {train it for ufe.
3. Take of red wine, half a pint — tincture of myrrh and common honey, of each half an ounce.
4. Stir the whole well together.

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