6. Volatil Salt of Beans.
℞ Beans lbv. put them into an earthen Retort, or a glass one
Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...
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- Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...
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- Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
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- M.DC.XCVIII [1698]
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coated, and distil them in an open Fire, increasing the heat by de∣grees, till the Oil and volatil Salt begins to ascend; and continue the distillation for three or four hours, till the Receiver becomes clear. The Liquor, together with the volatil Salt, may be rectified in a glass Cucurbit with a long neck and its proper head, in Sand; so will the volatil Salt gradually ascend to the highest part of the head, of a white colour; which immediately put into a Glass and stop it close, keeping it in a cold place for use.
It wonderfully attenuates, in∣cides, opens, dissipates, and pe∣netrates; it opens all Obstru∣ctions, by cutting the Pituitous Humors, and making them thin; for which reason it brings forth Urine and Sweat, and is good in all chronick Diseases; it al∣lays the acidity and destroys it; being profitable for the cure of many Diseases, as the Gout, Pain of the Stomach, Scurvy, Fits of the Mother, Hypochondriack Melancholy, Falling-sickness, Apoplexy, Lethargy, all Sleepy Diseases, Swooning-fits, &c. for that it wonderfully excites or stirs up the Animal Spirits in such Patients. Dose, à gr. v, ad xv.