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Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815. Benjamin Barton Smith notebook on materia medica circa 1796-1798. B MS b52.1, Countway Library of Medicine.
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Diaphoretics
Carbonate of Potash. With any of the vegitable acids it is a refrigerating diaphoretic before alluded to, the effervescing draught is a verry pleasant way of giving it, the following is the formula
Rx Carbonate of Potash Ʒ fs [½ dram] Lemon Juice Ʒ fs [½ dram] Aqua Font Ʒ ij [2 drams]
M and give to the patient in the act of effervescence, the Carbonic Acid is disengaged and it is rendered a verry pleasant cordial to the Stomach aresting vomiting, and inducing a determination to the skin, another verry
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* The practice of Dr Clarke, of Edinburgh, was, to confine his patients to their bed, where he kept them in a continued sweat for 48 hours. But Dr Whytt adopted a different plan, by which he never failed to cure. He bled frequently with numerous leeches apply’d to the joints affected, he clensed the alimentary canal with refrigerating cathartics, and he put a blister to the part occasionally, forbiding the use of animal food and fermented liquors at the same time.