The true method of curing consumptions wherein 1. The vulgar method is discovered to be useless and pernicious, 2. A new method, by safe, pleasant, and effectual remedies is describ'd, 3. The original and immediate cause of this distemper explain'd, and 4. Several remarkable observations on persons lately cured by the same method, related, particularly the case of Mr. Obrian, whom the author undertook by his Majesties command : with an account of a cure performed on a person of quality at Paris, and several others / by Samuel Haworth.

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The true method of curing consumptions wherein 1. The vulgar method is discovered to be useless and pernicious, 2. A new method, by safe, pleasant, and effectual remedies is describ'd, 3. The original and immediate cause of this distemper explain'd, and 4. Several remarkable observations on persons lately cured by the same method, related, particularly the case of Mr. Obrian, whom the author undertook by his Majesties command : with an account of a cure performed on a person of quality at Paris, and several others / by Samuel Haworth.
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Haworth, Samuel, fl. 1683.
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London :: Printed for Samuel Smith ...,
1683.
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Tuberculosis -- Early works to 1800.
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"The true method of curing consumptions wherein 1. The vulgar method is discovered to be useless and pernicious, 2. A new method, by safe, pleasant, and effectual remedies is describ'd, 3. The original and immediate cause of this distemper explain'd, and 4. Several remarkable observations on persons lately cured by the same method, related, particularly the case of Mr. Obrian, whom the author undertook by his Majesties command : with an account of a cure performed on a person of quality at Paris, and several others / by Samuel Haworth." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43110.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.

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Observation the Fifteenth.

A Person of Qualities Child, about two years of Age, had from its very Birth been fre∣quently surprized with Spasm's or Convulsive Fits, and was at last hereby so much weakned, and emaciated, that it was not expected to live many days; but after several Physicians had en∣deavoured to relieve the poor Babe, by prescribing it Cephalic Plaisters to be applied to the Feet, Blisters to the Neck and behind the Fars, Oyl of Amber to anoint the Temples, Spirit

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and Tincture of Castor, Spirit of Sal Armoniac and Harts horn, and Compound Spirit of Lavender, to be taken in Black Cherry Water, with other things of the like Nature, without any success or benefit; by some few Doses of our Antepi∣leptic Powder, one or Two Doses of our Brisk Elixir, not only the Fits left it, but also the other Symptomes in a short time va∣nished, and the Child became as healthful and thriving as if its tender Body had never un∣derwent the rigor of painful Spasms.

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