Wesley Corpus

Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
Year1770
Passage IDjw-primitive-physick-058
Words215
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Catholic Spirit Universal Redemption Prevenient Grace
425. Or, drink cold Water as largely as poffible, taking nothing else ' till the Flux ftops : 426. Or, take a large Apple, and at the Top pick out all the Core, and fill up the Place with a Piece of Honey-comb ; (the Honey being ftrained out) roaft the Apple in Embers, and eat it, and this will stop the Flux immediately : 427. Or, a Dram of Salt of Vitriol diffolved in Water : 428. Or, thirty Grains of powder'd Root of Gladwin, at Night, twice or thrice a Week : It is juft as good as Rhubarb in moft Cafes : 429. Or, Decoction of Primrofe leaves, Morning and Evening : Or, of Millet-feed: 430. Or, grated Rhubarb, as much as lies on a Shilling, with half as much of grated Nutmeg, in a Glass of white Wine, lying down, every other Night : Tried . 431. Or, take four Drops of Laudanum, and applyto the Belly a Poultis of Worm-wood and red Rofes boiled in Milk. 432. Or, a Pint of Decoction of Burnet, with a Lump of Butter in it, Morning and Evening. It ufually cures in three Days. 116. To prevent (orstop a beginning) Gangrene. 433. Foment continually with Vinegar, in which Drofs ofIron hasbeen boiled. 117. The
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