The Miscellaneous Tracts of the Late William Withering: To which is Prefixed a Memoir of His Life, Character, and Writings, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 |
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Página 299 - liquid medicine be preferred, I order a dram of these dried leaves to be infused for four hours in half a pint of boiling water, adding to the strained liquor an ounce of any spirituous water. One ounce of this infusion, given twice a day, is a medium dose for an adult patient.
Página 307 - it has a power over the motion of the heart, to a degree yet unobserved in any other medicine, and that this power may be converted to salutary ends.
Página 119 - AN ACCOUNT OF THE INTRODUCTION OF FOXGLOVE INTO MODERN PRACTICE. As the more obvious and sensible properties of plants, such as colour, taste, and smell, have but little connexion with the diseases they are adapted to cure ; so their peculiar qualities have no certain dependence upon their external configuration. Their
Página 119 - examination by fire, after an immense waste of time and labour, having been found useless, is now abandoned by general consent. Possibly other modes of analysis will be found out, which may turn to better account ; but we have hitherto made only a very small progress in the
Página 307 - when dropsy is attended by palsy, unsound viscera, great debility, or other complication of disease, neither the Digitalis, nor any other diuretic can do more than obtain a truce to the urgency of the symptoms; unless by gaining time, it may afford opportunity for other medicines to combat and subdue the original disease.
Página 134 - that his wife had stewed a large handful of green Foxglove leaves in half a pint of water, and given him the liquor, which he drank at one draught, in order to cure him of an asthmatic affection. This good woman knew the medicine of her country, but not the dose of it, for her husband narrowly escaped with his life.
Página 301 - the taking of the medicine. But these sufferings are not at all necessary; they are the effects of our inexperience, and would in similar circumstances, more or less attend the exhibition of almost every active and powerful medicine we use. Perhaps the reader will better understand how it ought to be given, from the following
Página 121 - squill, which generally acts best upon the kidneys when it excites nausea, I wished to produce the same effect by the Foxglove. In this mode of prescribing, when I had so many patients to attend to in the space of one, or at most of two hours, it will not be expected that
Página 492 - the danger of sheltering under a tree during a thunder-storm. In digging the foundation for this monument, the earth was disturbed at the perforation before mentioned, and the soil appeared to be blackened to the depth of about ten inches. At this depth a root of the tree presented
Página 116 - It is much easier to write upon a disease than upon a remedy. The former is in the hands of nature, and a faithful observer, with an eye of