The Selected Writings of Benjamin RushPhilosophical Library, 1947 - 433 pages |
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Page 232
... remedies . Bleeding , purges , and vomits , sweating medicines , hot and cold water , ice and snow , baths of different kinds , opium and bark , crude quicksilver , and calomel , iron and copper , acids and alkalies , lime and tar water ...
... remedies . Bleeding , purges , and vomits , sweating medicines , hot and cold water , ice and snow , baths of different kinds , opium and bark , crude quicksilver , and calomel , iron and copper , acids and alkalies , lime and tar water ...
Page 265
... REMEDIES of the Indians . These , like their diseases , are simple , and few in number . It will be difficult to find the exact order in which the Indian remedies were suggested by nature or discovered by art ; nor will it be easy to ...
... REMEDIES of the Indians . These , like their diseases , are simple , and few in number . It will be difficult to find the exact order in which the Indian remedies were suggested by nature or discovered by art ; nor will it be easy to ...
Page 279
... remedies have we found for the gout , the epilepsy , apoplexy , palsy , dropsy of the brain , cancer and consumption ? How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies , by the ...
... remedies have we found for the gout , the epilepsy , apoplexy , palsy , dropsy of the brain , cancer and consumption ? How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies , by the ...
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ON SLAVEKEEPING 1773 | 3 |
A PLAN OF A PEACEOFFICE FOR THE UNITED STATES | 19 |
SYLVANIA 1777 | 54 |
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