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Page 224 - dipt all over, but not ftay in (with his head above " water) longer than half a minute, if the water be " very cold. After this he muft go in three times *' a-week for a formight longer.
Page 224 - ground liver-wort, cleaned, dried, and powdered, *' half an ounce. Of black pepper powdered, two " drachms. Mix thefe well together, and divide " the powder into four dofes ; one of which muft be " taken every morning, fafting, for four mornings " fucceffively, in half a pint of cow's milk warm.
Page 113 - ... of its performing a cure after the madnefs was begun : from fix or feven grains to a fcruple may be given every day, or every fécond day, for a little time, and repeated at the two or three fucceeding fulls and changes of the moon. Some few trials have likewife been made on human...
Page 222 - ... hours. NB That the ninth day after the bite muft not be let flip, before this medicine be taken, left the poifon feize the blood too ftrongly. It muft be given cold, or at leaft only a little aired. A double double quantity may be given to a beaft foon after the bite.
Page 254 - ... after the bite. That made by rubbing in a mortar two parts of hog's lard with one of crude Quickfilver will do; but equal parts of hog's lard and crude...
Page 114 - ... the fame thing fince upon a multitude of dogs, and it has never failed in any one...
Page 254 - This mould be repeated every day for a week ; but if it can be done twice a day without faliva, tion, it is the better. The evening of the fame day let the patient take the following medicine. TAKE of Turpeth Mineral, from three to eight grains, according to the ftrength...
Page 77 - ... and the more advantage to the patient ; at the latter end of which cafe the matter has a bloody tincture, and a bilious fmell, exactly like what comes from ulcers in the liver ; and both thefe cafes are attended with fweet urine as in a diabetes.
Page 114 - Tamworth, of about eighteen. The bite was upon the hand. A great number of dogs were bit at the fame time, in the town where he lived.
Page 116 - After this he went into the cold bath, and continued perfectly well. BUT what is remarkable in this cafe is, that the wound ran a thick digefted matter after this method, and threw off the fcab, after which it healed of itfelf.