LECTURE II.

On the requisite means and medicines towards restoring health.

Sect. I.Of the pulse[50]
Sect. II.Of the effects of bleeding[55]
Sect. III.Of the operation of bleeding[58]
Sect. IV.Of the requisite medicines useful at sea[63]
A plan of a medicine box[64]. Of utensils, and medicines[65]. Lancets, ibid. scissars, probe, spatula[66]. Bistouries, and incision lancets, teeth instruments, syringes[67]. Clyster pipes and bladders, clyster syringe, scales and weights[68]. Splints[69]. Bandages, rags, tow, lint, tape, needles, thread and pins[70]. Camomile flowers, balm, sage, sassafrass[71]. Oatmeal, cinamon, allum, chalk[72]. Salts, diachylon plaister[73]. Mercurial plaister, blistering plaister[74]. Spirits of wine and camphire[75]. Liniment of soap, sweet oil, sweet spirit of nitre[76]. Honey, yellow basilicon; elixir of vitriol[77]. Elixir proprietatis, lenitive electuary[78]. Turner’s Cerate, fever powders, stomachic powder[79]. Calomel[80]. Precipitate[81]. Mercurial ointment[82]. Rhubarb, jalap, ipecacuanha, liquid laudanum[83]. Essential oil of peppermint, Turlington’s balsam[84]