‘AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY, 7 
rally becomes a ‘dwarf, and ‘is fickly or: phthifical’ during Tifé, efpecially if the 
back be any way affefted. A ricketty child thould be ufled to motion, and kept as 
much as poffible in a pofture oppofite to that which his bones are inclined to. . It is 
alfo ferviceable, before the diftemper is confirmed, to plunge the child two or three 
times every morning inatub of cold water, during the months of May and June 
efpecially.. After being takea out the laf time, it is to be well dried, and put im- 
mediately i into a bed or cradle, there to fweat freely for an hour or more, as the 
ftrength will bear ; and, when it grows cool again, it may be taken up and thifted. 
T he back-bone alfo, and j joints, may every night be anointed before the fire, with 
the white of an egg, beat into a water with a whifk or fpoon; or with a liniment of 
rum and palm oil. Itis ufual likewife to apply a plaifter of minium and oxy- 
_.croceum along his back, and to rub him all over before the fire, but moftly the 
"parts affected, with adry linen cloth. But perhaps nothing can exceed the follow- 
ing liniment and plaifter ; the former for anointing the joints, and principal parts 
affected, with a warm hand,once or twicea-day ; and the latter for applying to the 
back, or any particular part, being fpread upon leather. Take nerve ointment, 
with oils of palm and bays, of each one ounce ; balfam of Peru, and oil of nutmeg, 
by expreffion, of each two drachms ; oil of cloves and chemical oil of amber, of 
each ten drops ; compound fpirit of lavender, one ounce; fpirit of fal ammoniac, 
two drachms : mix fora liniment. Take platters of cummin, brown, minium, and 
herniam and oxycroceum, of each haif an ounce ; balfam of Perv, one drachm, 
powder of red rofe flowers, and armenian bole, of eachhalf an ounces ois of amiss 
and camphire, of each one drachm; oil of parfley, enough to makea conlifteace for 
ua a after, When the diltemper feems fixed and obftinate, iffues maybe cut in the 
| vee neck, efp ally if the head be large, and the child of a grofs habit. 
Or ‘BARRENNESS IN ‘WOMEN, AND INSUFFICIENCY IN : MEN. 
“BARRENNESS i is fuch a ftate of a woman’s body as indifpofes it, upon the 
ule of the natural means, to conceive and propagate her fpecies. This diftemper 
roceed h be reduced to” thefe two general heads: 
2 ; frogs Page ie es ce eee the male femen i in the act of copu- 
--An indifpofition of the parts 
ih in an aah, ftreaming from it which. alone can impregnate ne 
—  Secielle ---An inaptitude to r retain and nourifh the vital particle a it 
ovar. , e, becomes a proper foe 
t and r _ its parts, till it 
is injected, { fo as to daegtog 3 ish indered by many caules; as, immature @ 9. 
ital paffages the woman cannot admit 
ithout great pain, which makes het diflike en 
s the fame effect 5 for, in elderly, virgins, t the 
an »P | “ 
when by reafon o} 
the virile member, or at leaftnot v Ww 
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