Every man his own physician : being a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies, for every disease incident to the human body ; with plain instructions for their common use / by John Theobald, M.D. author of the Medulla medicine ; compiled at the command of His Royal Highness of the Duke of Cumberland.

  • Theobald, John, -1760.
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
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Credit: Every man his own physician : being a complete collection of efficacious and approved remedies, for every disease incident to the human body ; with plain instructions for their common use / by John Theobald, M.D. author of the Medulla medicine ; compiled at the command of His Royal Highness of the Duke of Cumberland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EVERY MAN HIS OWN PHYSICIAN. Aches and Pains. RUB a little opodeldoch upon the part affected, two or three times a day, and wear a flannel upon it ; if this does not give relief, take twenty drops of volatile tincture of guaicum, (prepared as directed in the Appendix,) every night and morning, in a glafs of i'pring water. Hei/lcr. A F T E R-PAIN S. Take one fcruple of fpermaceti, five grains of-volatile fait of hartfhorn, five drops of balfam of Peru, and half a drachm of Venice treacle ; mix them into a bolus, with as much fyrup of white poppies as is fufficient to make a bolus ; to be repeated every fix hours till the pairs abate. Cover the woman up warm, and let her drink plentifully of caudle. B