Practical hints on the treatment of several diseases / by John Peacock.

  • Peacock, John.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Practical hints on the treatment of several diseases / by John Peacock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    R Potassae Acetat. 9j. Carbon. Ammon. gr. v. Sp. ^ther. Nitros. ^ss. Tinct. Hyos. gtt. x, Nicot. gtt. X. ad. XXX. Tint. Scillae 5ss. Digital,gtt. X. ad. xxx. Aq. Menth. Vir. m. ft. Haubt, ter indies sumend. An old woman travelled every day from the vil- lage of Eryholme to the market-town and back, (nine miles) on foot, driving an ass with panniers, and in general she had very good health; but having been caught in a severe shower of rain, it injured her health and terminated in a very obstinate anasarca. This proved a very extraordinary case, for as fast as she was enabled to drop the use of medicine, she was sure to begin again; and was filled up from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet, full sixteen times in three years. I tried at the first a variety of medicines; but I found, after a while, that she kept her strength the best under the use of small doses of calomel and pulv. scillae, gr. iij. washed down by a solution of the red oxyd of iron, in cold water. With these she got well, and was enabled to traverse her old ground more than twenty years afterwards. I was sent for to Chester-le-Street to see a young- man in anasarca, of a most formidable nature; he was in bed, and had been some time attended by two of our most respectable physicians; although naturally a slender youth, of about twenty,—one