The practitioner's ready reference book : a handy guide in office and bedside practice / by Richard J. Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Richard J. (Richard James), 1834-1901.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The practitioner's ready reference book : a handy guide in office and bedside practice / by Richard J. Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Total maximum Maximum single dose, dose in 24 hours. Grammes. Grains. Grammes. Grains Podophyllinum . . U.J 7 1 '2 Potassii bioinidum O.l) n J O.U lodidum cSU o.U 1 9*3 Resina jalapse 1 n . i.u 1 Ft 10 n At\ scaminonii. . i.U 1 Pt o.U *±u r^T 1*11 i — SabadillsB fructus . u.zo •^4 1 n 10 Santouiuum .... u.i 1 1 u.o 'f Stramouii folia f.li 1 n J..U lO semen . . . 1 0 Strychnia' . . . '. 1 6 u.uo 6 1 3 Stryclniise nitras' . (\ Til 1 U.Uo 6 Syrupus feni iodidi / .0 m on n\,yu OU. u Ouv Toxicodendri folia . . 0.4 6 1.2 18 Veratri rhizoma . 0.3 4i 1.2 18 Veratria .... . 0.005 1 1 3 0.03 6 TT Vinum oololiici . 2.0 ri30 6.0 1T[90 • Zinci acetas . . . . . 1.5 23 3.0 46 cliloridum . 0.015 1 4 0.1 lactas .... . 0.06 9 TiJ 0.3 sulphas .... . O.OG 9 To 0.3 ^ in divided doses as an emetic . 1.2 18 valerianas . 0.06 9 TiJ 0.3 Having thus studied the doses of the various remedial articles in the practitioner's armamentarium, as usually administered through the channel of the stomach, we are now prepared to examine into the posologioal features characteristic of the same agents when administered through other surfaces or media, such as the skin, air- passages, rectum, vagina, uterus, and urethra, including a reference also to certain local applications, as gargles, eye-washes, etc. These topics will be discussed in con- tinuation of the general subject of Dose.s. ' The doses of strychnia and its nitrate seem unusual and excessive (see table of doses, page 113).