AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY.. ; Lig 
dicines as obfervation and found philofophy recommend: for to the improvement of 
The knowledge of medicines, or fuitable remedies, is alfo highly neceflary to thofe, 
who, in order to moderate the impetus in acute diforders, make evacuations, blunt 
acrimony, dilute too thick fluids, condenfe thofe that are too thin, brace up too lax 
parts, and relax fuch as are too much conftricted; they alfo drive the humours to 
parts where they will be leaft prejudicial, upon occafion mitigate pain, and in lan- 
guors-ufe ftimulating medicines. Wine, vinegar, barley, nitre, honey, rhubarb, 
opium, and other fimples, are found both fafe and powerful medicines. Sydenham 
tells us, that all manner of difeafes may be cured by bleeding, purging, with a fub- 
fequent opiate, and proper regimen. In chronical cafes, mineral waters, falts, dia- 
phoretics; foap, mercury, fteel, with a few vegetables, and proper exercife, will 
_ generally effect the-cure. Ina word, what is there in the moft elaborate preparation, 
that is worth half the pains taken about it? Mercury, opium, the Peruvian bark, and 
other fimples, with fire and water, are acknowledged as the fureft remedies by the 
-ableft mafters of the art; and thefe are found to be more efficacious in that crude 
ftate, in which bountiful nature has imparted them to us, than after the molt ope- 
rofe and artificial preparations. We can defpair of nothing, while we follow fim- 
plicity.; but the event of intricate labour is fallacious; eG. gene 
Difeafes, in this and other countries, often flow from local circumftances; whence 
they admit of great mitigation, and fometimes of being entirely prevented, particu- 
larly if proper and timely means betaken for that purpofe. Difeafed parents, un- 
- wholefome food, confined air, and uncommonly wet, cold, damp, or hot, feafons, are 
the forerunners of various diforders ; and, as thefe are generally forefeen and known, 
it fhould be the daty of every individual to guard againft them, : 
Men.are alfo expofed to particular. difeafes from the occupations which they fol- 
low. Chymifts, founders, glafs-makers, and feveral other. aruilts, are hurt by the 
unwholefome air which they are obliged to breathe. ‘This air is not only loaded = 
the noxious exbalations arifing. from metals and minerals, but is fo charged wi 
2] ee iste Sie eae Fe ing the lungs fufficiently, and an{wer- — 
phlogifton as to be rendered unfit for expanding the lungs fu | 
eh er important purpofes of refpiration. ‘Hence proceed afthmas, coughs, 
ing the other important p ee tial copnieatll 
and confumptions of the lungs, fo incident to perfons who fc ny ‘ane 
: E 2 : Jong at work; and when they give over they 
"Such artifts ought never to continue too long | a eke 
ould faffer themfelves to cool gradually. They ought never to drink large quan- | 
- tities of cold, weak, or watery, liquors, while their bodies are hot, nor to indulgein a 
Miners, and al who work under ground, are likewife hurt by unwholelome air. 
The air, by its ftagnation in deep mines, not only lofes its proper fpring and other” 
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