After all this, the greatest preservative against sharp or repeated fits is the famous gum ammoniacum. A quarter of an ounce of this being dissolved in half a pint of water, two spoonfuls should be taken, according to the symptoms, every night, or every second or third night.
This method will prevent many fits, and abate the severity of those which cannot be avoided.
Thus the old man, even against the fury of this worst disturbance of his life, as well as all the rest, may live happy: and he ought to value that happiness the more, because he will owe it to his own discretion.
ARTICLES considered in this Pamphlet.
- Air, Page [20]
- Asthma, [52]
- Blood, fulness of, [38]
- Constitutions, faulty, [36]
- Decay, [41]
- Diet, [12]
- Exercise, [24]
- Fluxes, [47]
- Food, [12]
- Foods to be avoided, [17]
- Fulness of blood, [38]
- Gravel, [48]
- Health, [7]
- Health, to preserve, [9]
- Humours, [43]
- Inflammations, [46]
- Pains, [46]
- Passions, [28]
- Situation, [20]
- Sleep, [33]
- Sharp humours, [43]
- Stone, [48]
- Temper, [28]
- Wasting, [41]
- Weakness, [50]
FINIS.