Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley.

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    [A better application is the tincture of niattico, or matti- co leaves moistened with water, and bound upon the part. Mattico will astringe almost any bleeding vessel.] 11. Spitting of Blood. Eat a table spoonful of fine common salt every morn- ing fasting, or a tea-spoonful every three hours, until the bleeding stops. Take two spoonfuls of juice of nettles every morning, and a large cup of decoction of nettles at night, for a week : Or, three spoonfuls of sage-juice in a little honey. This presently stops either spitting or vomiting blood : Or, twenty grains of alum in water every two hours. [Take common salt, dissolved in water, or, a pill made of half a grain of powdered opium, and a grain of sugar of lead, every hour.] 12. Vomiting Blood. Take two spoonfuls of nettle juice. This also dissolves blood coagulated in the stomach. Or, take as much salt peter, as will lie upon half a crown, dissolved in a glass of cold water, two or three times a day.