Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1786
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Credit: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    816/865 (page 758)
    VINEGARS. VInegar is an acid produced from vinous liquors by a I'econd fermentation. It is an ufeful medicine both in inflammatory and putrid diforders. Its effe£ls are, to cool the blood, qucnth thirft, counteradt a tendency to pu- tr* failion, and allay inordinate motions of the fyftem. It likewile promotes the natural fecretions, and in fome cafes excites a copious fwear, where the warm medicines, called alexipharmic, tend rather to prevent that falutary evacua- tion. Weal$:nefs, faintings, vomitings, and other hyfteric af_ fe&ions, are often relieved by nnegar applied to the mouth and nofe, or received into the ftomach. It is of excellent life alfo in correcting many poifonous fubftances, when taken into the ftomach and in promoting their expulfion, by the ^iiffereni emundories, when received into the blood. Vinegar is not only an uleful medicine, but ftrves like- ^ife to extraa, in tolerable perfeaion, the virtues of feveral other medicinal fubftances. Moft of the odoriferous flowers impart to it their fragrance, together with a beautiful pur- plifti or red colour. It alfo aflifls or coincides with the in- tention of fquills, garlic, gum ammoniac, and feveral other valuable medicines. Thefe efFefts, however, are not to be expeded from every thing rhat is fold under the name of vinegar, but from fuch is found antl well prepared. The beft vinegars are thofe prepared from French wines. It is riecelTary for fome purpofes that the vinegar be dif- tilled; but as this operation requires a particular chemical apparatus, W fhall not infert it. yinegar of Litharge. Take of litharge, half a pound; ftrong vinegar, two pints. Infuie them together in a moderate heat for three days, frequently making the veffeli then filter the liquor for uf?,