The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].

  • Thomas Sydenham
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M.DCC.XVII
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Credit: The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Difeafes that are reckon'd moft chronical. It chiefly fhould imagine it ought to be reckon’d among Hyfterick Difeafes, had not I often found it would not yield at all to Hyfterick Remedies. CET. _ They who have ufed the Peruvian Bark for a long time are fübje& to this Difeafe, which by the by is the only Inconvenience I ever knew follow pdm, the ufe of this Remedy. But however it be, whether the Difeafe take its rife on this occafion, or from any other caufe, it is very eafily cured by the following Remedies, which fhould have been concealed if 1 had greater regard to my private Advantage than the publick Good: for by thefe _defcribed, to whom Bleeding, though repeated, Purges, a Milk-Diet and »teftaceous Powders, and the like, have done no good ; and they are thefes : . Jeta^t Take of the frefb Conferve of Garden: Scurvy-Grafs. two - Powder of Wake-robin fix Drams 5 make an Elettuary with a fufficient quantity of Syrup of Oranges: the JDofe i$ two Drams:to be taken thrice a-day for a Month, drinking upon 1t three Ounces of the folowing Water... ' | | 23 Ah Wo Fake of Garden Scurvy-Grafs eight Handfuls y of Water- .erefes and Brooklime, of Sage and Mint, each four Handfuls y the Peels of fix Oranges y of Nutmegs half an Ounce infufe them im fix Quarts of Bruntwick- Mum, and-diftil them in a common Still, and draw off but three Quarts for fe. | T The exa& Dofe of compound Powder of Wake-robin mutt be exactly obferv'd, at leaft-it muft not be leffen'd. CHAP. ^