Wesley Corpus

Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
Year1770
Passage IDjw-primitive-physick-080
Words359
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Pneumatology Means of Grace Communion
676. Or, rub in warm Treacle, and apply to the Part brown Paper fmeared therewith : Change it in twelve Hours : Tried. 677. Or, drink very largely of warm Water in Bed : 678. Or, drink half a Pint of Tar- water Morning and Evening. 679. Or, fteep fix or feven Cloves of Garlick, in half a Pint of white Wine . Drink it lying down. It fweats, and frequently cures at once : 680. Or, mix Flour of Brimftone with Honey, equal Quantities. Take three Tea-spoonfuls at Night, twoin the Morning ; and one afterwards Morning and Evening, 'till cured . This fucceeds oftner than any Remedy I have found: 681. Or, take Morning and Evening, as much Lignum Guaicum powder'd as lies on a Shilling : 682. Or, as much Flour of Sulphur, wafhing it down with Decoction of Lignum Guaiacum : 683. Or, live on new Milk- whey and white Bread for fourteenDays . This has cured in a desperate Cafe. •684. Or, pound the green Stalks of English Rhu barb in May, with an equal Quantity oflump Sugar. Take a Nutmeg of this three or four Times a Day. This feldom fails. 179. To restore the Strength after a Rheumatifm . 685. Make a ftrong Broth of Cow -heels, and wafh the the Parts with it warm twice a Day. It has reftored one who was quite a Cripple, having no Strength left either in his Leg, Thigh, or Loins . 686. Or, drink every Morning half a Pint of Buckbane Tea, with a Tea-fpoonful of Spirits of Hartfhorn . 180. The Rickets (to prevent or cure.) 687. Wash the Child everyMorning in coldWater. 181. Ring Worms. 688. Apply rotten Apples : 689. Or, rub them with Oil ofPaper : 690. Or, with the Juice of Houfe-leek : 691. Or, wash them with Hungary- water camphorated . 182. Running at the Nofe. 692. Snuff up a Tea-fpoonful of Spirit ofHartsborn. 183. A Rupture. 693. Foment with hot Aqua-vita for two Hours 694. Take Agrimony, Spleen-wort, Solomon's-feal, Strawberry- roots, a Handful each ; pick and wash them well ; ftamp and boil them two Hours,