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Has fhe pain and giddiness in the head, oppreffion at ftomach, or difficulty of breathing?

Is the affected with fickness and vomitings, or a naufeous, bitter taste in her mouth?

What is the natural State of her bowels, as to being coftive or laxative?

Is the urinary discharge deficient in quan tity, and perfpiration obftructed; is the restless, or does she enjoy refreshing sleep?

What is the place of the patient's refidence, and state of the Air; is it cold, and dry, or warm and moift? What Medicines has she taken, how long, and what were their effects?

Simple

Simple Forms of Medicine referred to in the preceding Work.

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HE medicines here fet down, being compofed of few ingredients, may be had of the Apothecary, nearly at the fame expence as if the articles were bought separately, and prepared by the patient; fuch Forms being chiefly added to ascertain the Quantity and Quality of Medicines peculiarly adapted to the Female diforders, previously

treated of.

When medicines are difpofed of at an under value, they cannot be fuppofed good; those who are defirous to recover their health, and expect them genuine, fhould have them from an Apothecary without regard to price.

Note, To avoid confufion; the number of the different medicines here referred to,

is

is regularly continued; and wherever any medicine is omitted at its particular figure, there is always a reference to a former number, where the fame medicine had previously been fet down.

Anodyne or Compofing Pill. No. 1.

Take of ftrained Opium, two grains; Almond Soap, one fcruple; Peruvian Balfam, two drops; let them be perfectly mixed and divided into fix pills. To be taken as directed at page 53.

Strengthening Infufion. No. 2.

Take of fresh powdered Peruvian Bark, one ounce; yellow rind of Orange-Peel, three drams; infufe them twenty-four hours with a pint of boiling water, in a large tea-pot kept gently warm; let them be stirred now and then, and to the strained liquor, add three drams of compound spirit of lavender, and of confection of Alkermes half an ounce. A Tea-cup full may be taken as directed at page 66.

Anodyne

Anodyne Opiate Pill. No. 3.

The fame as No. 1, which fee, and take as directed at p. 67.

Strengthening Pills. No. 4.

Take of the foft extract of Peruvian bark, two drams, fine powder of Myrrh, and Salt of Steel, of each one dram, Effential Oil of Cinnamon, four drops; mix them well together, make the whole into a mafs and divide it into forty Pills, to be taken as at p. 67.

Opiate Mixture. No. 5.

Of fimple Mint-Water, feven ounces, Mindererus's Spirit, half an ounce, Thebaic tincture, forty drops, Syrup of White Take two spoon

Poppies, half an ounce.

full occasionally, as at p. 75, till the flurry

of spirits, and pinchings in the bowels go

Antimonial Vomit. No. 6.

off.

Take of Emetic Tartar, two grains, Spring Water, one ounce and half, Oxymel of Squills, three drams. To be given as at P. 76,

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Deobftruent Pills. No. 7.

Take of Socotorine Aloes,extract of black Hellebore, and Almond Soap, of each one dram, effential oil of tanfy, four drops, make them into a mafs for forty pills; to be taken as at p. 76:

Strengthening Infufion. No. 8.

İnfufion, No. 2, to which add one dram of the Acid Elixir of Vitriol, and take as mentioned at p. 84.

Aftringent Injection. No. 9.

Take of Alum, and White Vitriol, in powder, of each one dram, diffolve them in one pint of boiling water, and when cold filter the folution through paper.

It may be used milk-warm, with a womb fyringe, as directed at p. 85, twice a-day.

Cathartic or Purging Draught. No. 10.

Take of limoniated Infufion of Sena, two ounces, in which diffolve three drams of Manna, Compound Spirit of Lavendar one dram. To be taken as directed at p. 94. Alterative

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