The village doctor; or the art of curing diseases rendered familiar and easy; with select receipts, from the practice of the most eminent physicians and surgeons ... / By a physician [i.e. James Scott].

  • Scott, James (Surgeon)
Date:
1825
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Credit: The village doctor; or the art of curing diseases rendered familiar and easy; with select receipts, from the practice of the most eminent physicians and surgeons ... / By a physician [i.e. James Scott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    support the strength with beef broth, ar- row-root, wine, and other similar articles. WATER BRASH. Symptoms.—Heat and pain at the pit of the stomach, belching, and a discharge of thin watery fluid resembling saliva, which flows from the stomach, gullet, throat, and mouth, in considerable quantities. It oc- curs frequently in Ireland and Scotland, and has been supposed to arise from the immoderate use of potatoes, or oatmeal, with whiskey. Treatment.—The spasms to be relieved by taking thirty or forty drops of lau- danum, and smoking or chewing tobacco ; and the disordered state of the stomach corrected by the following means. Clear the stomach by an emetic of ipecacuanha, and take the following pills: Take Oxyde of Bismuth 2 drachms; Aromatic Confection I drachm : Mix, and divide into 48 pills ; the dose of which is two pills, three times a day, fol- lowed by a wine-glassful of inlusion of