Wesley Corpus

Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
Year1770
Passage IDjw-primitive-physick-034
Words348
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relieves in twenty-four Hours, and cures in five er fix Days. 160. Or, from three to five Grains of Gum Gamboge. It vomits and purges : And, Dr. Cook fays, always cures. 1 61. In desperate Cases , change of Air alone has cured. Cholera Morbus, i . e . Flux and Vomiting. 162. Drink two or three Quarts of cold Water, if ftrong; of warm Water, if weak : 163. Or, drink a Draught ofVinegar and Water : 164. Or, boil a Chicken an Hour in two Gallons ofWater, and drink of this 'till the Vomiting ceases. 165. Or, Take fix Grains of Laudanum, and apply a flit Onion to the Stomach. 33. Chopt Hands (to prevent. ) 166. Wash them with Flour ofMustard: 167. Or,fin Bran and Water boiled together. 168. To cure, wash with soft Soap mixt with red Sand: Tried. 169. Or, apply Oil ofMyrrh. 31. Chopt Lips, 170. Apply a little Sal Prunella. 35. A Cold. 171. Drink a Pint of cold Water lying down in Bed : Tried , 172. Or , a Spoonful of Treacle in half a Pint of Water : Tried. 173. Or, to one Spoonful of Oatmeal, and one Spoonful 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. 36. A Cold in the Head . 174. Pare very thin the yellow Rind of an Orange. Roll it up infide out, and thruft a Roll into each Noftril . The Cholic (in the Fit . ) 175. Drink a Pint of clod Water: Tried . 175. Or, a Quart of warm Water : Tried. 177. Or, as largely as poffible of warm Tar-water : 178. Or, a Pint of Water in which a red hot Flint is quenched : 179. Or, drink largely of Camomile Tea : 180. Or, ofDecoction of Mallows : 181. Or, takethirty Drops of Spirits of Turpentine, in a Glafs of Water : 182. Or, from two Scruples to half a Dram of Yellow-peel