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cordial powder, prepared much in the same manner as the species cordiales et 

 solares alexipharmacae Zwelferi, or my sulphur minerale mixed with magister. 

 margar. lap. hyacinth, smaragd. bezoard. orient, and other cordials. Whenever 

 my patients were very much inclined to be sleepy and doze much, I then added 

 to the former medicines volatile salts. But if on the contrary I perceived any 

 coUiquations, then I used to add crocus orient, theriaca coelestis, and other 

 paregorics, but with caution. If convulsions and spasms happened, then cin- 

 nabarine medicines were successfully applied. In haemorrhages the martialia 

 and the tinctura antimonii were very beneficial. 



When the patient is first seized, liis limbs are quite stiff, and as it were 

 benumbed with cold by the violent attack of a cold ague-like fit, in which case 

 we presently applied hot bags filled with oats, or rubbed him well with warm 

 cloths, to bring him to warmth again. Against restlessness and deliriums, 

 anodynes signified nothing; but we took the fol. rutae, salicis, plantaginis, 

 scordii, serpylli, and the like, mixed with salt and moistened with rose-vinegar, 

 which being clapped warm about the head, did good to a great many. Vertigoes 

 and pains in the head were often mitigated with the ordinary species pro cucuph^ 

 disp. Berol. of which one part, mixed with a quarter part of nitrum antimoniale, 

 and fol. rutae. portulacae et endiviae, of each half a part; is to be tied about the 

 head. Against dozing and sleepiness, a blister was applied in the neck, and 

 snufF blowed up the nose, especially some quickening salts or spirits rubbed in 

 the nostrils. Violent diarrhoeas were indications of outward convulsions, and 

 were frequently stopped by a topic medicine of theriaca, mithridate, or orvietan, 

 mixed with vinegar, and spread upon leather or linen, and applied warm to the 

 navel. Bleeding at the nose was one of the most dangerous symptoms of any, 

 and could not by any mere outward application be stopped ; and if it was stopped, 

 it was of no service, especially if it happened the third day. Yet I found it 

 sometimes very useful, to put lint moistened with vinegar of roses into the 

 nostrils, and to tie a small bolster with the lapis haematitis moistened with vine- 

 gar on the hollow part just above the nose between the eyebrows; or to put rue 

 and red roses, stamped and sprinkled with rasberry-vinegar, between a double 

 linen, and so applied to the neck. 



When the throat was very dry, we used barley water, and sometimes added 

 sal prunell. and sweetened it with syrup of mulberries, granats, or the like, and 

 sometimes also used it without any syrup. 



In such as suddenly lost their strength, and had their spirits dejected, we used 

 all manner of cephalics and cardiacs, and whatever we thought would strengthen 

 the patient; and if he desired a glass of good rhenish, we never denied it him; 

 but this appetite seldom happened till the patient was past recovery. Otherwise 



