SECT. IV. Cachexia.
'TIs caused through Ob∣structions, and Hard∣ness of the Liver and Spleen; which brings the whole Body into an ill State and Disposition.
Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood.
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- Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood.
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- Yarwood, John, 17th cent.
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- 1683.
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"Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67767.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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This Disease commonly follows some long Sickness, as a Dysente∣ria and Lienteria. The Flesh waxes loose and soft, the Pati∣ent is weak, hath bad Digesti∣on, loatheth Meat, desires Drink. The Body is whitish, and he goeth weakly. 'Tis mostly in∣cident to Old Men and Chil∣dren.
If it continue long, it brings the Patient into a Dropsie.
The Cure.
All Medicines, that potently open Obstructions, are proper in this Case. Take Pulvis Ca∣checticus, half a Dram at a time, every Morning, and stir after it; taking every Night ten
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Grains of Sweating Antimony. Pilulae Anodynae (which is most commonly known by the name of Matthew's, but more properly Starkey's Pill) in this Case is ex∣cellent, being taken to the quantity of twenty Grains at Night, going Bed, two or three Hours after a light Supper. Cro∣cus Martis Apperitivus, in this Case, is proper; but Oleum Mar∣tis is better, taken eight Grains at a time. I distill a Spirit from Antimony one Pound, and Nitre three Pounds; whereof I give five or six Drops in white Wine or Ale: It must be drawn in an open Retort, and cast in by two Drams at a time, and the Retort stopt quickly.