6 CULPERER's ENGLISH PHY SICLAN, 
As either unable, to. bear, At, ¢ or the - smalady has become. incurable! patients are’ likes 
“wile, apt t to rrifle with themfelves, , They cannot fee how,one.of the common actions 
‘of ife fhould. Prove 2 a remedy ip, an obftinate: difeafe, and therefore. they.rejeét ir, 
‘while they, greedily hunt after. relief from medicine, merely because they do,not 
‘underftand i it. _Next to proper air and exercife, a due attention. fhould be paid to 
diet, which ought, to be calculated to. leflen the acrimony of the humours, and,to 
nourith and fupport the patient, For this. purpofe he fhould keep) chiefly :to, the 
ufe of vegetables and. milk. . Milk alone is of more value,in this: difeafe than the 
whole materia medica, Affes milk i iscommonly reckoned, preferable to any. other; 
but i it cannot always be obtained ; befides, itis generally taken in very {mall quan: 
: tity ; 5 whereas, to produce any effects, it ought to makea confiderable part:.ofthe 
patient’ s food. Some extraordinary cures in confumptive cafes have been perform. 
ed by women’s milk ; and, could it.be obtained in {ufficient quantity, we would re- — 
commend it in preference to any other. It is better if the patient can fuck it from 
‘the breaft, than to drink it afterwards. A man who was reduced to fucha degree of 
weaknefs in aconfumption, as not to be able to turn in bed, fucked: his:wife’s 
breafts,, not with a view to reap any advantage from the milk, but to make -her ealy. 
“Finding himfelf. however. gteatly benefited by it, he continued to fuck her: till. che 
came perfeétly. well, and is at prefent.aftrongand healchy man... Some prefer but- 
| ter-milk toapy other, and.it is indeed.avery valuable medicine, if the ftomach: be 
“able to bear it. It does not agree with every perfon at firft ; and. is therefore often 
Tai aic afide without , a fufficient trial. It fhould. at firft be taken {paringly:and the 
* ‘quantity gradually, increafed, until.it comes to be almoft the {ole food.’ , 1,never 
: knew i it fucceed unlefs where the patient almoft lived upon. it.. _ Wholefome air, 
proper exercife, anda diet confiftent therewith, is the only courfe that can be. ode+ 
pended. on in a. beginning, confumption. .. If the patient has ftrength and {afiicient 
- refolution to perfitt j in fuch.a courfe, he will feldom be difappointed. of -a.cure. de 
the firft ftage o ofa confumption, . the cough may fometimes be appeaféd by bleeding 
-and | : expectoration may, be promoted by the following medicines. Takeifreh - 
n-ammoniac, and powdered cardamum feeds, of each a-quarterofvan 
nce; beat them together in a mortar, and, if the mafs proves too, hard for pills, 
ittle of any | sind of fyrup may be added to it, This ; may be formed into pills of 
ize, and four or five of them taken twice or thrice a-day, according as 
Hient’s ftomach will bear them, A. mixture made of. equal parts of lemon- 
NESE ne Ys and fyrup ¢ of poppies, may likewile be ufed,. : Four ounces of each 
1m cred | together _ in a faucepan, over a aa fire, cand. a table- 
: Spoonful of ittaken at any time. when the eave is. tau Y “aa ig gf omnme? 
in this ftage of the. difeate t mic,me- 
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