A letter from an apothecary in London, to his friend in the country, concerning the present practice of physick : in regard to empiricks, empirical methods of cure, and nostrums. With remarks on Dr. Mead's, Mr. Freke's, and Mr. Cheselden's method of cure for the itch, by externals only ... Also some observations upon manna ... with remarks on Dr. Mead's certain cure for the bite of a mad dog.

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1752
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Credit: A letter from an apothecary in London, to his friend in the country, concerning the present practice of physick : in regard to empiricks, empirical methods of cure, and nostrums. With remarks on Dr. Mead's, Mr. Freke's, and Mr. Cheselden's method of cure for the itch, by externals only ... Also some observations upon manna ... with remarks on Dr. Mead's certain cure for the bite of a mad dog. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    keeps Dp a moft defirable Diaphorejis, the Forerunner generally of a fortunate Crijis. Bliftering pretty fmartly at the fame Time, in this Sort of Fevers, will no ways retard the Cure; on the contrary, the ftimulating Fa¬ culty of thofe Flies will help to enable to carry on the Circulation, ’till the morbifick Matter chance to be thrown off by regular Secretions. * Dr. Freind remarks, though we cannot exactly calculate the Virtues of a Compound from the proportional Qualities of the Sim- ples&sAlkindus pretended to do, yet /till there may fomething refult from a Mixture, which cannot be found in any one of the Ingredients $ Mithridate and the Treacle of Andro- machus have been in Uie for near two thou- fand Years ; and {till allowed to be good Medicines, by the ableft Judges : And yet, were we to examine every Particular, we fhould probably be at a Lofs, by any Force of Reafoning, to comprehend why this or that Drug fhould have been made choice of, or how it could add to the Efficacy of the Medicine. I ffiall here give the Remarks of a Foreigner upon Venice Treacle. <c Longum * See Medulla Medicine ZJniverfse, or a New Compen¬ dious Difpenfary, compiled at the Command of his Royal Highnefs the Duke. By the King’s Phyficians and Sur¬ geons, the Surgeon-General, and Apothecary-General of the Army.