Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1792
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Credit: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    meal, as much as neceflary. Boil the roots along with the figs in a fufficient quantity of water; then bruife and add to them the other ingredients, fo as to form the whole into a foft cataplalm. The galbanum muft be previously diflblved with the yolk of an egg. Where ft is neceflary to promote fuppuration, this cata- plafm may be ufed by thofe who chufe to be at the trouble and expence of making it. For my part, I have never found any application more proper for this purpofe than a poultice of bread and mPk, with a fufficient quantity of either boiled or raw oaion in it, and foftened with oil or frefh butter. Sinapijms. Sinapifms are employed to recal the blood and fpirits to a weak part, as in the palfy and atrophy. They are alfo of fervice in deep-feated pains, as the fciatica, &c. When the gout feizes the head or the ftomach, they are applied to the feet to bring the diforder to thefe parts. They are likewife applied to the patient's foles in the low ftate of fevers. They fhould not be fufFered to lie on, however, till they have raifed blifters, but till the parts become red, and will continue fo when prefled with the finger. The finapifm is only a poultice made with vinegar inftead of milk, and rendered warm and ftimulating by the addition of muftard, horfe-radifti, or garlic. The common finapifm is made by taking crumb of bread and muftard-feed in powder, of each equal quantities; ftrong vinegar, as much as is fufficient, and mixing them fo as to make a poultice. When finapifms of a more ftimulating nature are wanted, a little bruifed garlic may be added to the above. CLYSTERS. 'TpHIS clafs of medicines is of more importance than is * generally imagined. Clyfters ferve, not only to eva- cuate the contents of the belly, but alfo to convey very ac- tive medicines into the fyftem. Opium, for example, may be adminiftered in this way when it will not fit upon the fto- mach, and alfo in larger dofes than at any time it can be taken by the mouth. The Peruvian bark may likewife be, with good effect, adminiftered in form of clyftex to perfons who cannot take it by the mouth. A fimple