Ourselves, our food, and our physic / [Benjamin Ridge].

  • Ridge, Benjamin
Date:
1884
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Credit: Ourselves, our food, and our physic / [Benjamin Ridge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Three should be taken at first at such times, with a little hot, but weak spirit and water,—as the spirit dissolves the camphor in the pills. After four, eight, or twelve hours, two more may be taken, if in pain,—which will come on at those periodical hours. Their action is to relieve nervous excitement and tranquillize the system. Medicines which act on the absorbent system are often most valuably employed, and save much suffering,—as for instance during the early periods of nursing after confine¬ ments. Should there be a tendency to very full breasts, it maybe expedient to reduce the action of the milk-glands, and so to prevent those most painful occurrences incident to maternity, namely, abscesses of the breast. The follow¬ ing pills, will, under such circumstances, be found of great service. 54. Take— Tartarized antimony . 3 grains. Powdered opium .. 6 „ Spirits of wine enough to make a mass. Divide into twelve pills, one to be taken two or three times a day ; or Dover’s powder .... 12 grains. May be substituted for the powdered opium. Simple reduction of general fulness and discomfort being all that is required, one or two pills may only be necessary. Por infants or children mineral emetics are useful in cases where vomitings are called for, when the system is unable to bear the depression consequent on antimony or ipecacuanha. 55. Take— Sulphate of copper. 10 grains. Water .. 3 ounces. Mix. Give a dessert-spoonful every quarter of an hour till vomiting is produced. The effect thus regulating the quantity taken for a child