ENPages That Mention Rev. Dr. John Hancock
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
pleasant and more certain formula is this,
Rx Lemon Juice ℥ ij [2 ounces] Aq. Font ℥ ij [2 ounces] Carbonate of Q.S. [as needed] to Saturate them Sugar Ʒ ij [2 drams]
M give one table spoonfull every hour or two, Cold Water was given in large draughts by Celsus half a century ago, and it induces the same effect as affusions or ablutions of cold water. The patient falls into a refreshing sleep from which he awakes in a perspiration, particularly in the hot stage of fevers when the temperature is very high. Hancocks celebrated febrifuge was nothing more than 1 qt of Cold Water drank