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] |