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REVOLUTIONARY PHYSICIAN PRESCRIBES A TINCTURE RUSH, BENJAMIN. Autograph Letter Signed, "Benj'n Rush," to Jacob Broome, recommending a regime of treatment [for some unusual gastroenterological condition]. 1 1/4 page, 4to, with integral address leaf (nearly detached); small hole from seal tear with loss of few letters of text repaired verso with paper, faint uneven toning, folds, address leaf inlaid. Philadelphia, 30 September 1809
". . . The disease to which Dr. Monroe has given a name is not a new one in this country. I have met with it occasionally and relieved it. The medicine most proper for this purpose is the Tincture of Cantharides of which please to take ten drops three times a day in any kind of liquid, and increase the [dose] gradually till you take forty at a dose. Unless a painful Sensation should be created sooner upon the neck of the bladder. . . . If you are not relieved by this tincture, a blister should be applied to the perineum. The Uva Ursi may be continued as formerly directed. Your diet should be more bland and demulcent than formerly directed. . . ."
