Davis County Clipper | 1904-10-21 | Page 3 | Medicine of Long Ago

medicine of long ago andiew wilson the well known naturalist and writer in co commenting on Cul peppers Com completa Comp lct method published in 1652 shows how this enabled a man t to 0 cure himself being sick for charge with such things only as grow in england they being most fit for english bodies john wesley practiced physic 1 wll wil sor continues his system was not strictly limited to vegetable simples wesley prescribed boiled carrots as an exclusive diet tor for a fortnight for or the cure of asthma and reco recommended minea ded bald headed people to wash their vacant spots with a decoction of 0 boxwood for bleeding from the lungs or stomach the juice juica of nettles Is ordered and for an ague six pills of middling size elzo ot of cobwebs