. New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician [microform] : containing a complete system of practice on a plan entirely new, with description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure. Medicine, Botanic; Herbs; Phytothérapie; Herbes. »*i^ # :'^. J^^Guide to HuiUt^; ^ â '^ "It motee not only the secretion of urine, but at the sams -f time^ insensible perspiration, in febrile disorders; while it allays thir
. New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician [microform] : containing a complete system of practice on a plan entirely new, with description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure. Medicine, Botanic; Herbs; Phytothérapie; Herbes. »*i^ # :'^. J^^Guide to HuiUt^; ^ â '^ "It motee not only the secretion of urine, but at the sams -f time^ insensible perspiration, in febrile disorders; while it allays thirst and abates heat; though in malignant ^ases in which the pulse is low, and the patient's strength exhausted, it produces contrary ; *'This pow- erful salt, when inadvertently taken in too large quantlr ties, is or^e of the most fatal poisons," " For some in- teresting observations relative to the deleterious proper- ties of salt-petre, the reader is referred to Dr. Mitchell's letter to Dr. ; I have found from a series of practical experiments for many years, that salt-petre has the most certain and deadly efiects upon the human system, of any drug that is used as medicine. Although the effects produced by it are not so immediately fatal as many others, yet its whole tendency is to counteract the principles of life, and destroy the operation of nature. Experience has taught me that it is the most powerful enemy to health, and that it is the most difficult opponent to encounter, nith any degree of success, that I have ever met with. Being in its nature cold, there cannot be any other effects produced by it, than to increase the power of that enemy of heat, and to lessen its necessary influence. *^ Opium, when taken into the stomach to such an ex- tent as to have any sensible effect, gives rise to a pleas- ant serenity of the mind, in general proceeding to a cer- tain degree of languor and ; "It excites thirst and re
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